Application Integration Engineer APAC

Job description

Tasks

• The Application Integration Engineer is responsible for the planning, installation, configuration and maintenance of the global JB Messaging infrastructure.
• The employee should bring extensive knowledge of IBM products and certificates to ensure secure production messaging availability and uptime as well as smooth deployments in the production environment.
• The employee participates in daily operational work, provides second-level support for Linux operating systems and participates in the on-call service rotation.

Rollers

Integration Specialist

• The Integration Specialist supports various customers with integration solutions based on message flows for service consumers and providers so that messages are routed, transformed and enriched during processing.
• This role requires a proven track record of successfully delivering and maintaining integration solutions with IBM ACE as well as expert knowledge of messaging in distributed systems.

IBM MQ Administrator

• The IBM MQ Administrator installs and administers IBM MQ Server and performs various messaging-related tasks across one or more engineering teams, such as designing, installing and maintaining queue managers and queues while maintaining backup/recovery design and configuration and change management.
• This role requires a proven track record of successfully managing and maintaining queue managers and queues in a hub-and-spoke architecture, secure messaging, maintenance of publish/subscribe messaging and queues, and expert knowledge of asynchronous service-to-service communications.

Regulatory Responsibilities &/OR Risk Management

• Ensure appropriate ethical and compliant behavior within the area of responsibility by clearly demonstrating appropriate values and behaviors, including but not limited to standards of honesty and integrity, care and diligence, fair treatment (fair treatment of customers), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, appropriate risk management and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Rank

• Rank: AD

Requirements

Profile

• Thorough understanding of the concepts and implications of building resilient and reliable EAI and SOA solutions on IBM middleware, as well as in-depth knowledge of various integration patterns.
• Thorough knowledge of server build installation and deployment, maintenance as well as migrating and performing upgrades on existing MO infrastructure. Knowledge of Ansible is a plus.
• Experience with messaging tools such as MQ Editor, RFH2UTIL, G/Q-Load etc. and with system monitoring tools.
• Strong design and programming skills in the following technologies: ESQL, XML, XSQL, JSON, Web Services, Java, PL/SQL etc. and Unix and Windows environments.
• Familiarity with SSL security implementation, certificate management, IBM MQ product monitoring, backup recovery, high availability, failover methods, disaster recovery, performance monitoring and optimization, IBM MQ security hardening and best practices.
• Good knowledge of software development methods, tools, standards and procedures for high-quality software development.
• General knowledge of scripting (Perl, Shell, Python etc.).
• Strong analytical and good interpersonal skills.
• Good organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work shifts for onsite support.
• IBM MQ/IBM ACE certification is a plus.

Additional preferred skills

• Knowledge of enterprise integration architecture standards.
• Knowledge of IT service management best practice.