Kafka Admin / IBM MQ Admin

● 2+ years of IBM MQ Administration and Technology Experience 

● 4+ yrs of well-versed experience as Kafka Administrator

● Installing and Configuring Kafka

● Hands-on experience in creating Kafka Topics/brokers & setup Zookeeper instancesx.

● Know how to setup - scheduler as well as Real time data ingestion (from source to sink) using Kafka connectors (supporting CRUD operations)

● Experienced in creating Kafka producers and consumers using micro services.

● Error handling & retry/replay of messages if upstream/downstream system fails (error topic/queue concept)

● Well-versed in deploying Kafka nodes as POD or Docker containers on Oracle cloud environment (OCI).

● Kafka monitoring dashboard setup using tools like Grafana

● Experience installing and upgrading WebSphere MQ on Linux

● Experienced in creating the MQ clustering queues and channels.

● Experience in IBM MQ/ WMQ Administration like QMgr, Channels, Cluster, Remote Queues

 ● Configuration and troubleshooting of SSL for Queue managers.

● Working knowledge of WebSphere MQ distributed queuing environment

● Working knowledge of WebSphere MQ 9.0/9.1 on Linux platform

● J2EE Integration Developer 

● Experience in - Docker, Kubernetes containerization, Spring boot framework for systems Integration 

● Jenkins, Ansible, GIT, Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes

● Scripting and code writing skills needed for utility and adhoc projects.

● Experience using SQL on Oracle 12c or 19c

● Unix Shell Scripting experience

● J2EE Integration Developer 

● Exposure to working with Cloud computing, especially Oracle Cloud.

● Exposure to Infrastructure automation, scalability, micro services architecture