Role & responsibilities

Seeking an experienced IBM MQ Engineer / Architect with strong containerization and Kubernetes knowledge to lead the migration of IBM MQ workloads from Amazon EC2 to Amazon EKS. The role will own assessment, target-state design, migration planning, build, testing, cutover, and post-migration stabilization for a secure, highly available, and observable IBM MQ platform running on Kubernetes.

Preferred candidate profile

- Assess the current IBM MQ estate running on EC2, including queue managers, channels, clustering, HA/DR setup, storage, security, monitoring, and dependencies.
- Define the target architecture for IBM MQ on EKS, including container strategy, namespace design, networking, persistent storage, secrets handling, and high availability.
- Design and implement IBM MQ containerization patterns using Docker/OCI images and Kubernetes-native deployment approaches.
- Build and manage deployment automation for IBM MQ on EKS using Helm, Kubernetes manifests, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code where applicable.
- Plan and execute migration from EC2 to EKS with minimal disruption, including environment setup, data persistence strategy, queue manager migration, rollback planning, and cutover support.
- Configure persistent volumes, storage classes, backup, restore, and disaster recovery for stateful IBM MQ workloads on Kubernetes.
- Implement security controls including TLS, certificate management, IAM integration, secrets management, encryption, and platform hardening.
- Partner with application, middleware, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to validate connectivity, performance, and production readiness.
- Establish monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability for IBM MQ on EKS using enterprise tooling.
- Tune performance, capacity, and resilience characteristics for containerized MQ workloads.




- Produce architecture documents, runbooks, SOPs, migration plans, and operational handover materials.
- Support hypercare and post-production stabilization after migration.

Required Skills

- 7+ years of hands-on experience with IBM MQ administration and engineering.
- Strong experience with IBM MQ queue managers, channels, listeners, clustering, client connectivity, SSL/TLS, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience containerizing middleware platforms, ideally IBM MQ.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and Amazon EKS, including pods, StatefulSets, services, ingress/network policies, volumes, config maps, secrets, and RBAC.
- Experience migrating stateful enterprise workloads from virtual machines or EC2 to Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure, including EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, EBS/EFS, load balancing, Route 53, CloudWatch, and security controls.
- Experience with CI/CD and automation tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
- Knowledge of Linux administration, shell scripting, and container runtime concepts.
- Experience with monitoring and logging platforms such as Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics.
- Robust troubleshooting skills across middleware, OS, networking, storage, and cloud layers.

Preferred Skills

- Experience with IBM MQ Operator or similar Kubernetes-native operational models.
- Prior experience designing HA/DR for IBM MQ on Kubernetes.
- Experience with service mesh, certificate automation, and secrets platforms such as HashiCorp Vault.
- Familiarity with enterprise integration patterns involving IBM MQ, APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems.
- Exposure to regulated environments with strong audit, security, and resiliency requirements.
- Experience with OpenShift is a plus.
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