Company Description
Showtime Consulting is a leading provider of Shielded Cloud Solutions. Based in Australia and New Zealand, we specialise in secure cloud deployments and extending the cloud to the intelligent edge. Our expertise spans Azure, Azure Stack, AWS, OpenStack, and Red Hat Linux, serving both commercial and government environments, including government-classified clouds. Our mission is to forge the future with secure, innovative technologies that protect and uplift communities, while our vision is to revolutionise seamless collaboration across domains on an ultra-secure platform.
We support national delivery programs involving classified ICT systems, accreditation readiness, and technical assurance across complex environments.
The Role
We're seeking an experienced IBM WebSphere MQ Administrator to support, maintain, and optimise our enterprise messaging infrastructure.
This Sydney-based role is part of a national uplift program for legacy systems supporting a secure regulatory platform. You will be responsible for ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable messaging between applications, services, and systems across distributed environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, configure, and maintain IBM MQ (WebSphere MQ) across Windows and UNIX/Linux platforms.
- Create and manage MQ objects queues, channels, topics, listeners, and queue managers.
- Troubleshoot MQ issues related to connectivity, message flow, queue depth, and performance.
- Implement and manage MQ security (SSL/TLS, MCA user IDs, channel authentication).
- Monitor and tune MQ performance using tools such as MQ Explorer, MQSC, or custom scripts.
- Integrate MQ with other middleware platforms (e.g., IBM Integration Bus, Apache Camel, MuleSoft).
- Develop and maintain scripts for automation of routine MQ administrative tasks.
- Support disaster recovery and high-availability configurations (HA clusters, multi-instance QMs).
- Collaborate with development and application teams to assist in messaging design and best practices.
- Maintain documentation and comply with internal change management processes.
What You'll Need
- Hands-on experience administering IBM MQ/WebSphere MQ.
- Deep understanding of messaging patterns (point-to-point, pub-sub).
- Experience configuring MQ clustering, multi-instance queue managers, and distributed queuing.
- Proficiency in scripting (Shell, Perl, or Python) for automation.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., IBM MQ Explorer, Tivoli, Prometheus/Grafana).
- Knowledge of SSL/TLS certificates and MQ channel security.
- Understanding of networking concepts relevant to messaging (TCP/IP, ports, firewalls).
- Australian Citizenship with Baseline security clearance.
Why Join Us?
- Play a key role in a nationally significant government-aligned program.
- Join a collaborative consulting team known for technical excellence and professionalism.
- Flexible working arrangements, contract or full-time role available
Security Clearance Requirement
Due to the nature of this role, applicants must be Australian Citizens with an active Baseline clearance.