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The ideal candidate should possess deep hands-on experience in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) administration across complex enterprise environments, along with a solid understanding of IBM MQ on z/OS (Mainframe).\nThe role will primarily focus on WAS administration, engineering, migration, performance optimization, security implementation, and platform modernization initiatives, while also supporting IBM MQ infrastructure on Mainframe and distributed platforms.\nThe Value You Deliver\nThe Mainframe MQ group provides a variety of services related to MQ & WAS on z/OS systems at Fidelity. 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Support business-critical transactions that depend on MQ messaging. \nAdminister Queue Sharing Groups and Shared Queues for continuous service availability. Support disaster recovery, failover, and resilience testing activities. \nEnsure MQ infrastructure can recover quickly from failures without business impact. Diagnose and resolve MQ failures impacting business applications. \nInvestigate channel outages, queue build-ups, triggering issues, and connectivity failures. 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