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Dublin

Site Reliability Engineer – IBM MQ

Keep critical messaging platforms reliable, secure, and highly available!

Location: Dublin, Ireland
Work Arrangement: Hybrid

About the Role

Are you an experienced IBM MQ professional with a strong focus on reliability, automation, and production support?

We are looking for an experienced SRE / IBM MQ Engineer for our client in Dublin. You will be responsible for maintaining reliable and secure enterprise messaging platforms, with a focus on IBM MQ administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, automation, and continuous improvement.

You will work closely with application and infrastructure teams to ensure critical messaging services remain stable, performant, and highly available.

Key Responsibilities

  • Administer, configure, upgrade, and maintain IBM MQ queue managers across Linux/Unix environments.

  • Manage queues, channels, listeners, clusters, and high-availability configurations.

  • Maintain MQ security, including TLS, certificates, and CHLAUTH.

  • Monitor messaging platforms and proactively address queue, channel, performance, and delivery issues.

  • Troubleshoot MQ, application, and production incidents and drive issues through to resolution.

  • Manage cluster balancing, platform upgrades, certificate renewals, and OS patching.

  • Support capacity planning and disaster recovery testing.

  • Build and improve operational automation using Shell, Ansible, Python, or similar tools.

  • Support event-driven platforms such as NATS, Kafka, and Solace from an infrastructure perspective.

  • Use monitoring, automation, and operational tools to improve platform reliability.

  • Establish and maintain messaging platform standards and operational best practices.

  • Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to support critical production services.

Requirements

Must Have

  • Minimum 6–8+ years of IBM MQ administration experience in distributed enterprise environments.

  • Strong expertise in MQ clustering, security, configuration, and performance tuning.

  • Solid experience with Linux/Unix environments.

  • Hands-on experience with Shell, Ansible, Python, or similar scripting/automation.

  • Experience supporting large-scale production messaging systems.

  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

  • Experience with monitoring tools.

  • Experience with event-driven platforms or event brokers.

  • Experience with RDMQ.

  • Experience troubleshooting applications and production environments.

Good to Have

  • Experience with NATS, Kafka, or Solace.

  • Experience with Splunk, Dynatrace, or IBM Tivoli.

  • Experience with Jenkins, Bitbucket, or Digital.ai Release (XLR).

  • Basic SQL knowledge.

About Sperton

Sperton is a global recruitment and consulting company with offices across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. We help organizations find and engage top talent through flexible recruitment, consulting, and global mobility solutions.

Locations
Dublin
Employment type
Full-time
Job location
Dublin, Ireland
Employment Level | Seniority
Senior Level
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Workplace & Culture at Sperton

At Sperton, we believe that great results come from great people.
Our culture is built on trust, collaboration, and a shared passion for delivering quality in everything we do.

We are a Norwegian-owned international company with colleagues across Europe, Asia, and the USA, working together seamlessly across time zones and cultures. Our teams are diverse, yet united by the same goal — to connect people and companies in meaningful ways.

We value openness, initiative, and continuous learning. Everyone at Sperton is encouraged to take ownership, share ideas, and challenge existing ways of working to make our solutions even better.

Even though we operate globally, our approach is personal. We take pride in creating a supportive and inclusive environment where people feel heard, respected, and motivated to grow — both professionally and personally.

Dublin

Site Reliability Engineer – IBM MQ

Keep critical messaging platforms reliable, secure, and highly available!

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