Track Manager - Apache Kafka, Windows PowerShell

Job Summary

MQ & Kafka experience- MQ to Kafka migration experience.

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities 1) MQ Solution Architecture & Engineering Design MQ-based integration solutions (queue manager topology, channels, security model, message flows and patterns) aligned tointegration standards. Provide architecture guidance on synchronous/asynchronous patterns, message durability, ordering, idempotency, and error-handling strategies. Define and enforce non-functional requirements: availability, scalability, latency, throughput, DR, and operational readiness. 2) MQ Platform Build, Administration & Operations (Infra + Admin) Install, configure, and administer IBM MQ across Linux/Windows environments (and container platforms if applicabl

Skill Requirements

8+ years in enterprise middleware/integration roles with deep hands-on IBM MQ experience. Proven MQ administration skills: Queue manager configuration, channels, clustering, MQSC scripting, runmqsc, mqcli, dmpmqcfg. Performance tuning, log management, tuning for persistent/non-persistent messaging, channel tuning. Strong platform operations experience: Linux administration (preferred), Windows administration (nice-to-have), filesystem & OS tuning basics. High availability and disaster recovery engineering (multi-instance QM, clustering/HA patterns). MQ security expertise: TLS/SSL, certificate management, keystores, cipher suites, CHLAUTH rules, user auth, OAM/ACLs. Monitoring & troubleshooting: Deep diagnostic capability using MQ logs/errors (AMQERR01), event messages, traces, and system logs. Familiarity with enterprise monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, Geneos, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK). Nice-to-Have / Advantageous Experience

Other Requirements

1. Optional but valuable: Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAK), Microsoft Certified: PowerShell Automation, Python Institute�s PCAP (Certified Associate in Python Programming)