Mainframe IBM zMQ Engineer - z/OS

IBM MQ Mainframe Engineer (z/OS)

DURATION: 6 months (initial contract with strong likelihood of extension)

LOCATION: Edinburgh, Leeds, Halifax or Manchester

WORKING HOURS: Standard business hours with out of hours support and deployments required

ONSITE REQUIREMENTS: Hybrid working with onsite presence as required - Out of hours on call is required

ENGAGEMENT TYPE: Outside IR35

DAY RATE: Up to £600 per day (DoE)

LEGAL RIGHT TO WORK: Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available for this opportunity.

GIBBS CONSULTING

Gibbs Consulting is expanding its Mainframe Practice and is looking to engage an experienced IBM MQ Administrator - z/OS (Mainframe) to support a major financial services programme. You'll be joining an established team responsible for maintaining and enhancing a business-critical IBM MQ estate supporting their enterprise platforms.

JOB OVERVIEW

We're looking for an experienced IBM MQ Administrator with strong hands-on expertise across IBM MQ on z/OS environments.

You will deliver complex technical support and project delivery across the organisation's IBM MQ estate on z/OS, with a strong focus on incident resolution, problem management and system stability. The role supports critical platforms across multiple business divisions including digital, payments, retail and insurance, while contributing to technology improvements and strategic initiatives. This position includes participation in out of hours deployments and migrations.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide technical support across complex MQ environments to tight timescales
• Deliver incident, problem and change resolution across critical systems
• Drive delivery against the technology roadmap with key stakeholders
• Enforce standardisation and support continuous improvement initiatives
• Collaborate across wider Middleware teams to develop and implement processes
• Deliver changes through RTL into production under governance independently
• Ensure strict adherence to operational processes and procedures
• Perform change and support activities outside business hours when required
• Work with IT Security to maintain MQ product security
• Maintain service stability, resilience and optimisation

REQUIREMENTS

• Min 5 years + administration experience of.*IBM Message Queue (MQ) v9.x on z/OS
• IBM MQ clustering experience
• Operational experience using z/OS panels and MQ Explorer
• Experience implementing and supporting TLS
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting online systems
• Strong diagnostic and analytical skills across complex technical environments