WHO WE ARE:
As the founding entity of RAINBOW PARTNERS, Quanteam is a consulting firm specializing in Banking, Finance, and Financial Services. Guided by our core values of closeness, teamwork, diversity, and excellence, our team of 1,000 expert consultants, representing 35 different nationalities, collaborates across 10 international offices: Paris, Lyon, New York, Montreal, London, Brussels, Geneva, Lisbon, Porto and Casablanca.
We are looking for a Middleware Messaging Engineer to work with one of our clients.
CONTEXT AND ROLE OBJECTIVES:
The position is part of the IT Data and Processing - ITP Middleware team.
Location: Montreal
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
IBM MQ
- Provide 24/7 and (when necessary) weekend support for systems involved in the architecture.
- Function as IBM WebSphere MQ administrator. Install MQ environments on Windows and Linux.
- Create and configure Queue Managers, channels, queues, and other MQ objects.
- Perform the backup and restore of Queue Managers and related objects. Recover damaged MQ installations and/or Queue Managers.
- Upgrade and patch MQ environments on Windows and Linux.
- Implement custom MQ security solutions using channel exits or SSL. Set up SSL communications between MQ servers and MQ clients to MQ servers.
- Install and configure MQ Clients on Windows and UNIX platforms.
Solace
- Function as Solace Messaging Engineer.
- Installation, upgrade and patching of Solace Appliances.
- Administration of Solace Appliances.
- Configuring Redundancy and Fault tolerance of Solace Infrastructure.
- Experience in configuring Solace bridging between remote Solace Appliances.
- Experience in configuring different protocols with Solace appliance: MQTT, REST, AMQP.
- Experience in using Solace CLI to configure different Solace objects.
- In-depth knowledge of Solace Queues and Topics.
- Enabling SSL for Solace communications.
- Configuring monitoring for Solace Appliances.
Collaboration, risk and automation
- Interface with Application teams in troubleshooting complex, cross-platform issues related to Solace communication.
- Identify operational and infrastructure risks within the environment and work with the application development teams and APS to make corrections and mitigate risks.
- Ensure optimal resilience of deployed systems and meet all disaster recovery and compliance requirements dictated by the business.
- Developing Python and Ansible playbooks to automate the Messaging Infrastructure.
PROFILE:
Mandatory requirements
- Strong knowledge and experience with IBM MQ and Solace Installation/Configuration and Setup.
- Working knowledge of setting up Redundancy and fault tolerance between Solace Appliances.
- Knowledge on setting up SSL for Solace and IBM MQ.
- Strong knowledge and experience with MQ processes, triggers, channels and clustering.
- Exposure to monitoring tools such as Nastel.
- Knowledge on Kafka.
- Strong knowledge and experience with PowerShell scripting.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft O/S, Sun Solaris, and Linux.
- Working knowledge and experience with Python and Bash scripting.
- Will be required to comply fully with the client's general policies on attendance, compliance and professional conduct.
- Willingness to adapt to the changes constantly introduced by the client's dynamic environment.
Nice to have
- Knowledge and experience with other flavors of web application servers (Apache Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic).
- Knowledge and experience with other flavors of web servers (Apache Web, IIS).
- Good understanding of Load Balancers (LTM).
- Good understanding of DNS and GTMs.
