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Senior IBM MQ Administrator

@ Agility IT

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Mississauga, Ontario

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Overview

Agility IT is hiring a Senior IBM MQ Administrator on a 6-month contract in Mississauga, Ontario, with a hybrid arrangement, for a leading enterprise client. The role covers administration, troubleshooting and operational support for IBM MQ v9.x on Linux, including queue managers, channels, queues and certificates. Hybrid work arrangement and contract duration are stated.

Responsibilities:

  • Administer and troubleshoot IBM MQ v9.x on Linux
  • Create and modify queue managers, channels, topics and queues
  • Monitor listeners, channel initiators, logs and dead letter queues
  • Manage certificates and security at queue manager and channel levels
  • Automate repetitive tasks with shell scripting

Requirements summary:

  • Hands-on IBM MQ v9.x administration on Linux
  • Incident management and troubleshooting experience
  • Knowledge of MQ clustering and distributed queuing
  • Experience with MQ Explorer monitoring
  • Strong documentation and communication skills

Tools & skills

IBM MQMQ ExplorerLinuxServiceNowDynatraceKafka
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2026-11-01
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2026-11-14
Source record updated
2026-11-14

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Job details

SenioritySenior
DepartmentSoftware development
Travelair: none · ground: none
Work settingOffice
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish

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Job description

IBM MQ Administrator – IBM MQ v9.x / Linux

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | 6 Months Contract | Hybrid

End Client: Leading Enterprise Client

About the Role

Our consulting client is seeking an experienced IBM MQ Administrator to provide administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and operational support for IBM MQ v9.x in a Linux-based environment. The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience managing MQ objects, supporting messaging infrastructure, resolving incidents, and ensuring reliable connectivity across application environments.

Responsibilities

  • Perform IBM MQ (v9.x) administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and operational support in a Linux-based environment.
  • Create and modify MQ objects, including Queue Managers, Channels, Topics, and Queues.
  • Configure WebSphere MQ Queue Managers, Channels, Topics, and Queues.
  • Monitor and maintain Queue Managers, Queues, Topics, Channels, and Listeners.
  • Create MQ objects on local and remote MQ servers.
  • Enable triggering on MQ Queues.
  • Configure and implement Distributed Queuing in Client/Server environments.
  • Install and configure the latest versions of IBM MQ.
  • Configure and monitor MQ Listeners, Channel Initiators, Trigger Monitors, MQ Log files, Dead Letter Queues, and Clustering setups.
  • Monitor IBM MQ using MQ Explorer and configure MQ Explorer Monitoring tools.
  • Participate in MQ Disaster Recovery (DR) exercises.
  • Use shell (batch) scripting for repetitive tasks and schedulers.
  • Understand basic networking requirements to establish MQ connectivity.
  • Manage security settings and different types of certificates at Queue Manager and channel levels, including installing new certificates and renewing existing certificates.
  • Understand different types of logging in WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and MQ.
  • Work with project teams on new application connections, analyzing and preparing the best-fitting messaging solutions.
  • Demonstrate strong communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and documentation skills.

Required Skills / What You Bring

  • Hands-on experience administering IBM MQ v9.x in a Linux-based environment.
  • Strong knowledge of MQ objects, including Queue Managers, Channels, Topics, and Queues.
  • Experience with incident management, troubleshooting, and operational support.
  • Experience configuring and monitoring MQ Listeners, Channel Initiators, Trigger Monitors, MQ Log files, Dead Letter Queues, and Clustering setups.
  • Knowledge of Distributed Queuing in Client/Server environments.
  • Experience with shell (batch) scripting and schedulers.
  • Understanding of MQ connectivity, networking, security settings, and certificate installation and renewal.
  • Experience with MQ monitoring tools, including MQ Explorer.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and documentation skills.

Beneficial Knowledge

  • IBM MQ Appliances
  • IBM MQ IPT
  • ServiceNow: Incident management, CR submission, tasks management, and closing
  • Dynatrace monitoring
  • Kafka technology

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