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KRISHNA KUMAR

MQ ADMINISTRATOR
Chennai

Summary

Seasoned IT professional with over 9+ years of industry experience, demonstrating a proven ability to drive results through developing and leading high-performance teams. Specializes in IBM WebSphere V8 and V9 administration, proficient in setting up IBM MQ, installing MQ on Unix & Linux servers, and adept at creating MQ objects and configuring SSL/TLS certificates. Proficient in Kubernetes, with hands-on experience deploying and managing IBM MQ in containerized environments.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

MQ Admin

Deloitte
Bangalore
07.2025 - Current
  • Install, configure, and maintain IBM MQ Queue Managers, Queues, Channels, Listeners, and Clusters on Linux/Unix/Windows platforms.
  • Monitor MQ resources and performance using tools like Dynatrace and take immediate action.
  • Troubleshoot message flow issues, dead-letter queues, and channel connectivity problems.
  • Work with development and application teams to onboard new integrations and provide MQ-related support.
  • Configure and maintain SSL/TLS security

MQ Admin

Walmart
Chennai
04.2022 - 06.2025
  • Configuration of MQ, setting up of Queues, Queue managers and Channels.
  • Having experience on Clustering of Queue Managers and worked in the cluster environment.
  • Pro-actively monitor the middleware and Perform daily on call tasks (checking error logs, Fail over queues, System Logs) to maintain a healthy system.
  • Creating key store and renewing the SSL certificates.
  • Utilized shell scripting to automate application deployments, start/stop services, and perform health checks.
  • Wrote shell scripts to parse and process log files, generate reports, and identify potential issues.
  • Monitoring health of services through Grafana and Omegamon alerts. Applying available fix packs and fixing vulnerabilities.
  • Using Ansible along with concord for automating repeated tasks.
  • Handled multiple P1/P2 incidents to ensure timely resolution and minimize business impact.
  • Gained hands-on experience installing and configuring IBM MQ on cloud platforms and Kubernetes clusters, ensuring proper storage, networking, and access control in distributed environments.
  • Performed chaos engineering on microservices using tools like ChaosBlade to test resilience, recoverability, and fault tolerance as part of SRE practices.

MQ Infra & Support

Tata Communications
Chennai
04.2020 - 04.2022
  • Installation and Upgrade of IBM-MQ with required fix packs.
  • MQ objects creation include Queue managers, Queues, Topics, Subscriptions, Channels, SSL setup.
  • Omegamon alert configuration for Queues and Queue manager as per application requirement.
  • Creating Change Request with ServiceNow for all configurations on Production servers.
  • OS level authentication configuration for applications to connect with MQ.
  • ServiceNow incidents support for new objects creation and production issues.
  • Change request implementation for production environment.
  • Have experience with MQ explorer UI for browsing MQ objects and messages.
  • L2 support on production incidents.

Support Analyst

CSS Corp Private
Chennai
08.2018 - 04.2020
  • IBM-MQ On-call support (24x7), Monitoring and maintaining multiple Applications at Non-Prod/PROD environments.
  • Install and Upgraded MQ and required fix packs for MQ 8.0.0.2 to MQ 8.0.0.5 for all MQ servers.
  • MQ objects creation include Queue managers, Queues, Channels, SSL setup, Clustering configuration on non-prod and prod environment.
  • Worked mainly on support activities.

Network Engineer

Proclad Engineering
Chennai
02.2017 - 05.2018
  • Handled incoming calls from clients and solved a variety of issues.
  • Ticket creation and closing tickets within SLA.
  • Utilize Asset Management and Network documentation tools to manage and track network hardware inventory, locations and status.
  • Improve hardware and network performance by identifying problems & recommending changes.
  • Monthly invoice preparation and claiming.
  • Assigning team members based on priority tickets.

Project Engineer

Altran Technologies
Chennai
12.2015 - 02.2017
  • Provide project planning, milestone management, scope management, resource forecasting; financial management; change management across the project portfolio.
  • Planning, Reporting, Document Management, Financial Management, Stakeholder Management, Change Request Management.
  • Providing effective management support to project teams on small to medium sized projects or assisting Project Managers on streams of other large projects.
  • Work order creation and following to achieve the billing milestone.

Education

BE - ECE

Anand Institute of Higher Technology
Chennai
07.2010 - 04.2014

Skills

IBM MQ

AMQ

Nifi

Ansible

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Certification

CCNA

Timeline

MQ Admin

Deloitte
07.2025 - Current

MQ Admin

Walmart
04.2022 - 06.2025

MQ Infra & Support

Tata Communications
04.2020 - 04.2022

Support Analyst

CSS Corp Private
08.2018 - 04.2020

Network Engineer

Proclad Engineering
02.2017 - 05.2018

Project Engineer

Altran Technologies
12.2015 - 02.2017

BE - ECE

Anand Institute of Higher Technology
07.2010 - 04.2014

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