MQ Consultant

We are looking for MQ Consultant candidates to take a look at a long-term, remote opportunity with a client in the financial services/banking industry.  Qualified candidates would have the following experience: 
 

Technical Qualifications

•         Candidates need 5-10 years of recent and related experience as an MQ Architect/Integration Engineer from Design through the Implementation of technical solutions

•         Strongly prefer recent, demonstrable experience with automated build and system configuration tools such as Terraform, Packer, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes, etc. Experience with Terraform is strongly preferred

•         Experience with common AWS services such as S3, EC2, ASG, ELB, SFTP, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc.

•         AWS Certification and/or experience utilizing AWS services in a production environment is preferred

•         Strong knowledge of high-availability, load-balancing, and failover configurations across application, infrastructure, and platform components

•         Understanding of security design for enterprise software systems

•         Proven ability to write clear and concise technical documents, including design documents, specifications, and technology roadmaps

•         Preference for proven ability to design, implement, and manage secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure environments

•         Experience with source code management tools such as GIT, SVN, etc.

•         Proven depth of knowledge and experience with Python scripting language

•         Experience with a variety of other programming languages such as JSON, YAML, Boto3, etc.

•         Familiarity with the implementation of CI/CD pipelines and test automation within CI/CD is a pl

Required Skills

•         Ability to coordinate and work with diverse groups of subject matter experts

•         Demonstrated initiative and self-motivation

•         Ability to work effectively independently or in a team environment

•         Strong analytical, collaboration, leadership, critical thinking, multitasking, and time management skills

•         Customer/people-focused orientation that drives and informs engagement with partners, leadership, and peers

•         Ability to influence successfully in a highly matrix or virtual organization

•         Demonstrates independent thinking and decision-making abilities

•         Ability to quickly receive and process information

•         Judgment to escalate risk-based decisions appropriately

•         Must be a U.S. Citizen, or a Green Card holder with the intent to become a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Skills

•         Working knowledge of other technology solutions/products such as MQ Salesforce Bridge, Grafana

•         Experience with Agile and DevOps in a cloud environment

•         Practical experience and knowledge of Service-Oriented Architecture, Microservices, and API

•         Expertise in Application Server and Web Server architecture in a large enterprise environment

•         Experience with both internally-facing integrations as well as externally-facing solutions

Education

•         Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field; or equivalent work experience