Senior Infrastructure Specialist (zMQ)

Join our z/OS MQ team as a Senior Infrastructure Specialist. In this full-time role, you'll provide specialized technical support across critical mainframe environments, contribute to the strategic direction of our MQ platform, and help drive the adoption of modern engineering practices and emerging technologies. You'll also provide technical expertise for incident and problem resolution within complex environments. Enjoy a generous holiday allowance, flexible working options, family leave, health insurance, colleague offers, financial products, share plans, and a pension plan.

GBP 72,702 - 80,780

Responsibilities

• Promouvoir la standardisation, la simplification et l'excellence opérationnelle tout en veillant à ce que les processus et les contrôles soient respectés.
• Fournir un leadership technique et un soutien pour des environnements MQ complexes fonctionnant à des niveaux de service exigeants.
• Aider à façonner la feuille de route stratégique pour z/OS MQ, en influençant l'orientation future de notre plateforme et de nos capacités d'ingénierie.
• Promote standardisation, simplification and operational excellence while ensuring processes and controls are adhered to
• Provide technical leadership and support for complex MQ environments operating to demanding service levels
• Help shape the strategic roadmap for z/OS MQ, influencing the future direction of our platform and engineering capabilities
• Work closely with key stakeholders and customers to drive and deliver against the technology roadmap, ensuring service and customer outcomes remain at the heart of everything we do
• Support the adoption of modern engineering practices, including automation, DevOps and continuous improvement initiatives
• Collaborate across middleware, infrastructure and engineering teams to explore and implement innovative solutions, integrating mainframe technologies with emerging platforms and capabilities

Requirements

Extensive knowledge of MQ infrastructure on z/OS

• Experience supporting and troubleshooting business-critical online systems
• An interest in driving innovation, automation and the evolution of mainframe technologies
• Strong experience of MQ system performance tuning, diagnosis and problem resolution
• Experience working with Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• Strong diagnostic skills and the ability to analyse technical information from multiple sources, providing effective solutions in complex environments

Preferred

• Experience or a keen interest in DevOps practices, automation and modern engineering approaches
• An interest in AI and emerging technologies, and how they can be applied to improve engineering effectiveness and customer outcomes