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The role ensures the stability, availability, performance, and security of mainframe-hosted MQ queue managers and the integration flows they support, delivered to contracted SLOs within a managed-services operating model.\nThe engineer bridges the Integration & Runtime Services messaging scope with the mainframe (z/OS) environment - operating MQ alongside mainframe scheduling, security, and file-transfer services (Connect:Direct between mainframe and open systems). 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