MQ Messaging Engineer

New Era Technology is a global technology solutions provider with 4,500+ employees and offices around the world. New Era offers Cloud, Managed, Professional, and Security services, and delivers Collaboration, Data Networking, Digital Transformation, and Physical & Life Safety solutions to more than 14,500 customers worldwide.

We are looking for team members to contribute to and deliver our mission: “To deliver and support technology solutions that securely connect people, places, and information.” New Era Technology is a community of like-minded, like-hearted people who share the same vision and values.

Work alongside the finest team of highly skilled and industry-certified professionals who are encouraged to drive change and think outside of the box. As a team member, you will receive competitive benefits, industry training, and certifications.  New Era Technology empowers businesses to embrace the future workplace. As customers shift their perspectives on where and how work happens, we are there to meet them with flexible, resilient, and productive solutions.

New Era Technology provides a team-oriented culture, a positive environment filled with an incredible staff, and a genuine passion for providing the best service to our customers worldwide. We believe that investing in our employees is the key to professional growth, delivering exceptional experiences for our customers, and setting the standard for excellence in our field.

We offer a growth-orientated, high-tech environment for employees. Along with our many benefits, you can expect a corporate culture that promotes personal and professional development. Our customer-focused teams are built on our core values: Community, Integrity, Agile, and Committed.

We currently have a need for a MQ Messaging Engineer supporting a Global Network Infrastructure environment. Global Financial Services and or banking experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Defining and executing on the messaging migration strategy.
• Administration of MQ zOS with queue sharing groups, clusters, pub-sub and channel auths.

• Engaging with development, infrastructure, security and IT operations team for messaging migration.

• Perform incident, problem and change management covering all supported systems. 

Skills required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field desired
• 10 years of experience with Messaging experience, preferably in the banking industry

• Experience working with messaging middleware (e.g., IBM MQ, Tibco EMS)

• MQ administration experience with zOS and specifically with concepts like queue sharing groups, clusters, pub-sub and channel auths.
• Experience in managing TLS certificates in either zOS or distributed MQ environment
• Experience with change and incident management

• Experience in application development that demonstrates thorough knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC)

• Ability to multitask and deliver quality work under pressure without being micromanaged.

Physical Demands:

• Regular use of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other office equipment.
• Regular, repetitive movements such as typing, mouse movements, and scrolling. Ability to hear and understand spoken communications, both in person and via remote communication tools (e.g., phone, video conferencing).
• Ability to see and read computer screens and printed documents, as well as adjust focus. This includes prolonged periods of looking at a computer screen.

This position is onsite in NYC paying a salary of $145k to $155k annually.