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At StoneX, we offer you the opportunity to be part of an institutional-grade financial services network that connects companies, organizations, and investors to the global markets ecosystem. As a team member, you'll benefit from our unique blend of digital platforms, comprehensive clearing and execution services, personalized high-touch support, and deep industry expertise. Elevate your career with us and make a significant impact in the world of global finance.

We are establishing a new internal capability to own, engineer, and modernise the firm's global IBM MQ estate. The IBM MQ Platform Engineer will be a key technical contributor responsible for the design, build, automation, and operational excellence of the IBM MQ platform as we transition away from outsourced management and toward a modern, selfservice, cloudready IBMMQ messaging backbone.

You will work directly with architects, application teams, infrastructure, and global engineering functions to uplift the current IBM MQ estate, reduce operational burden, introduce bestpractice automation, and drive the roadmap for nextgeneration messaging capabilities.

Responsibilities

Primary ResponsibilitiesPlatform Engineering & Modernisation

• Re-design, implement, and support a completely a modern IBMMQ backbone, running on Kubernetes, utlising NativeHA and the latest CRR features for resilience
• Lead the migration from legacy configurations to Gitbased declarative queue/ channel/ topic configuration pipelines.
• Develop and maintain InfrastructureasCode patterns for MQ deployments (Ansible/Terraform/Kubernetes Operators depending on architecture direction).
• Implement robust observability, including metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
• Partner with the architecture function on broader messaging strategy alignment, looking at features like Streaming Queues to enable bridging flow to Kafka/Redpanda
  
  

Operational Ownership

• Manage the lifecycle of global queue managers installation, patching, upgrades, configuration, security hardening.
• Handle incident diagnosis and resolution, including hung queue managers, performance degradation, and integration issues
• Maintain consistent operational standards across all environments (Dev/PreProd/DR/Prod).
  
  

Automation & DevOps

• Build pipelines for automated provisioning, validation, and deployment of MQ resources.
• Create selfservice workflows allowing application teams to safely request/configure queues without manual intervention.
• Contribute to platform SRE maturity through errorbudgeting, reliability scorecards, and toilreduction initiatives.
  
  

Security & Integration

• Implement and maintain LDAP / AD integration, RBAC, TLS, mTLS, and certificate automation.
• Ensure audit, compliance, and security standards are met across all MQ assets.
• Work with network engineering on secure, lowlatency connectivity and crossregion routing.
  
  

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with globally distributed teams (including AES, Data Engineering, Networks, and Architecture).
• Contribute to technical designs, standards, and bestpractice playbooks.
• Mentor junior engineers and help shape the future internal MQ engineering capability.
• Participate in strategic IBM MQ discussions and roadmap initiatives.
  
  

Qualifications


Required Skills & ExperienceTechnical Expertise

• 410+ years working with IBM MQ in engineering, DevOps, SRE, or platformsupport roles.
• Strong understanding of MQ queue managers, channels, listeners, clustering, security exits, and message flows.
• Handson experience with MQ NativeHA, HA clusters, DR patterns, replication and failover.
• Experience integrating MQ with Prometheus, Datadog, or equivalent monitoring stacks.
• Proficiency with Linux administration, scripting (Python, Shell), and system performance tuning.
• Demonstrated experience in automation, CI/CD, and InfrastructureasCode.
  
  

Desirable Skills

• Background with containerised MQ ( MQ Operator, Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• Experience designing selfservice platforms or internal developer portals.
• Exposure to other messaging technologies (Kafka/Redpanda, Redhat AMQ7) to support future messaging strategy alignment.
• Familiarity with enterprise security controls, LDAP/SSO integration, certificates, and encryption.
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated sectors.
  
  

Personal Attributes

• Strong problemsolving mindset with a drive to modernise legacy systems.
• Comfortable owning a critical platform endtoend.
• Excellent communication skills; able to influence and collaborate across engineering, operations, and architecture groups.
• Selfstarter with the ability to work independently and proactively.
• Passion for automation, reliability engineering, and designing for scale.
  
  

What Success Looks Like

• A stable, fully automated MQ estate with reduced operational burdens.
• Successful rollout of NativeHA and crossregion architectures.
• Realisation of selfservice configuration flows for application teams.
• Clear observability, security, and governance maturity across the platform.