Specialist Systems Engineer - MQ administrator
Key Responsibilities
We are seeking a skilled Microsoft Fabric Administrator to manage, configure, and optimize the Microsoft Fabric environment across the organization. The role involves overseeing data governance, security, capacity management, workspace administration, and ensuring smooth operation of data services
Support & Operations
Ensure that Support Level 1 & 2 are covered and service to user is improving.
Follow the SLA and ensure the team / business are respecting it
Maintain and enhance monitoring and alerting systems (logs, metrics, performance).
Administer Microsoft Fabric tenant settings and configurations
Manage Fabric capacities, assign workspaces, and optimize performance
Monitor platform usage, performance, and resource utilization
Configure and manage domains, workspaces, and item-level access
Implement role-based access control (RBAC) and data access policies
Manage tenant security settings, including external sharing and compliance
Ensure adherence to data governance, privacy, and compliance standards
Define and enforce data retention, sensitivity labels, and access policies
Administer Power BI service within Fabric
Manage datasets, reports, and semantic models
Configure gateway connections (Onpremises Data Gateway)
Ensure performance optimization for dashboards and reports
Monitor Fabric using Admin Portal, Metrics App, and logs
Identify and resolve performance issues and bottlenecks
Troubleshoot access issues, refresh failures, and capacity constraints
Automation & Integration
Ensure the maintenance of automation scripts with technical team (Deployment pipelines, Python.).
Automate manual process when it's possible.
Service Offering & Platform Evolution
Understand the Power BI Service offering
Help new users onboard and promote platform adoption.
Ensure the migration of eligible projects from RS to Power Bi Service
Technical Skills:
Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric / Power BI Administration
Experience with PowerShell, REST APIs for automation
Experience with monitoring tools and performance tuning
Hands-on experience with:
Capacity management
Workspaces & security configuration
Data pipelines and ETL processes
Good to HAVE:
Azure Data Services (ADF, Synapse, ADLS)
SQL, Data Warehousing concepts
Data Lake and Lakehouse architecture
Soft Skills :
Know how to lead an IT team.
Strong analytical skills, autonomy, and attention to detail.
Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
Customer-oriented mindset and excellent communication skills.
Functional Skills -
- Should have minimum 5-8 years working experience in MQ 9.x and 8.x administration.
- Working experience in a critical production environment
- Working experience in MQ Software upgrade/migration on Linux/Windows platform.
- Experienced in MQ Cluster configuration, MQ Certificate configuration and MQ object setup.
- Experience in MQ multi-instance MQ, RDQM.
- Experienced in MQ troubleshouting.
- Experienced working with IBM vendor support on MQ issues and bugs.
- Experienced in Scripting/Automation of the MQ activities.
- Experienced in MQ capacity analysis and performance analysis.
- Experienced in setting up monitoring for MQ.
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to coordinate with multiple application teams, gather and analyze technical requirements.
- Extensive experience in system analysis.
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
Good to have in Addition:
- Knowledge of RabbitMQ and MehsIQ
Manage a highly skilled team (multi skilled), Onboard skilled resources for the user support
Manage projects, cost control, budgets and ensure optimization
Good understanding of automation and its best practices
Should be capable of handling critical escalations and ensure towards resolution
Should be skilled to work independently, propose ideas and work globally
Should be comfortable working in highly challenging and stressful environment
Good knowledge on Infra management and it best practices (availability, service quality and legacy management)
Good Knowledge on Incident, Change, Request and Release Management
Good understanding of Vulnerability management
Good Understanding of Asset, license and Capacity Management
Good Understanding of Resiliency, DR Process and BCP
Good Knowledge in managing projects, reporting, timelines and publishing dashboards
Ensure resiliency tests/exercises are performed as per the recommendations.
Participation is must to support application when there applicative DRs.
Flexible to handle weekend activities as per requirements
Desirable Skills
ITIL V3 knowledge, Agile Certifications
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