Senior Platform Engineer - MQ

• Access to world leading tools and technologies

• Friendly, inclusive and collaborative work environment

• Future focused and innovative team of experts in data protection

See Yourself in the Team

Join our Specialised Hosting Crew, a pivotal part of the Global Hosting Services portfolio, responsible for managing the end-to-end technology platforms of core systems in the Bank. The Message Queue (MQ) Engineering & OPS crew own the development, support, and maintenance requirements of the MQ platform, driving excellence, quality, and performance across multiple portfolios.

Your Role

As an MQ Senior Platform Engineer, you will design, deploy, and manage IBM WebSphere MQ solutions, including installation, configuration, and ongoing maintenance. You will ensure the high availability, performance, and security of messaging services, supporting critical business applications across our organisation. Ultimately, you provide engineering support for the MQ platform, ensuring high-quality IT service delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the daily administration and maintenance of MQ environments, including installation, upgrades, patch management, and identifying opportunities to optimise performance and capacity.

• Diagnose and resolve complex MQ faults, provide expert-level support, and ensure appropriate implementation and maintenance of MQ security policies, access controls, and encryption.

• Develop and deploy MQ solutions, automate tasks using scripts, and create and configure MQ Objects such as Queue Managers, Remote Queues, Local Queues, and Queue Aliases.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support messaging needs for various applications is also essential.

Key Skills and Expertise

Programming for configuration and cross-platform integration using languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, C++, C#, Go, Python, or Java is a plus, and familiarity with .Net Framework, MVC, Web API, SQL Server, and modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular or React) is advantageous. Experience with CI/CD tools (i.e. Jenkins, Bitbucket, TeamCity) is also valuable.

Strong problem-solving skills, adaptability, learning agility, clear communication, and good organisational skills are also necessary.

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all, but experience or exposure to some of these will set you up for success in this team. For this role, we are seeking

Expertise in:

• IBM MQ Administration, including installation, configuration, management, and tuning of IBM MQ.

• High Availability and Clustering, including setting up and managing multi-instance, clustered environments, is important.

• Implementing IBM MQ Security features including MQAMS, IBM MQ IPT, and SSL/TSK.

• Complex fault diagnosis and timely resolution across MQ environments.

• IBM MQ monitoring toolsets (i.e. Splunk / Prometheus / Grafana / Observe) and task automation using Linux scripts (i.e. Bash/Python/Perl) is beneficial.

• Precision in system configuration and monitoring, with high attention to detail.

Working with us

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with CommBank is for you. Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. One where we’re driven by our values, and supported to share ideas, initiatives, and energy. One where making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.

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