Middleware Org Structure

John Lyons

Other teams
under him Swaranang Diphofa
Infra Services Africa

APPHost Willy Team Jboss Team Middleware team

Other Application teams Command Datapower MFT team MQ/MB team for MQ/MB Team SA
Centre Team ROA in Pune
Middleware team Surface
MQ/MB infra team

Linux/Aix team.
Command center
team.

Willy team
MQ core teams in SA
and Pune

Deepness
Demographically distribution of MQ and related teams.

01 Pune
Middleware MQ/MB I Infrastructure
Services Handling ROA

02 ABSA North
Middleware MQ/MB Handling SA

03 ABSA North
Infrastructure Services LPARS ,Willy dev team,
Linux team..etc

04 Randburg
Middleware command Centre
Overview of the various task performed by Middleware Team
Dev Task
Mainly related to new builds and
creation of new transport objects
SSL implementation

Miscellaneous
KT of new team members MQ infra Issues
,meeting for new projects. Related to the incidents
reported by command center

Documentation of process and

Dev Ops revision of the same
Install Scripts,cert creationWiki,
Automation of Build …Ansible. How to docs, Infra xls lists..etc
 MQ Middleware Infra – Dev Tasks

MB or other application Testing

Support Application dev team to resolve 20%
issues.
On Going task- MQ team
20% Creation of Application Specific Queues
Thresholds configuration
MQ team Testing of the MQ server build
Create the Queue Manger. 20%
Creation of Channel
Configuration of SSL. Linux Team
Create LPAR
20% Mounting of file system
MQ install
MQ Middleware Infra – Daily Operation Tasks

Command center Incidents

1
Application owners reporting issues

Feedback MQ Team
3 2
Work closely with them to resolve it.
Transfer of MQ/MB Middleware for ROA from Pune to SA
LEVEL

50%

On the grounds ABSA MQ team involvement

Pune still does the existing New build and new projects
handling of MQ infra Issues between SA and country applications
and monitoring on day to day basis DR exercises
Life cycle of engagement
Shadowing/Sharing
Introduction to team Knowledge transfer Handover & disengagement
tasks

Getting Transfer of The resource Handover of

introduced to knowledge need to share services to
the right and handover the work item run.
team/s of related and run with it
docs ,scripts under
and process guidance.
Th
to follow. This is the is
real-time m wi l l
o
This will hands on se vin be t
pr rv g
include phase o v i c of he
t e
k now m getting te he t ided s
o am ea
tt ea b
Ge the t access as we to m mo y
at o LT em r
Wh d go along It
ea ber
m
Engagement Timeline
Touch base with
Willy team and
continued
engagement with TBD
MQ team

1stweek 3rd Week

2nd Week 4th Week

Understanding
MQ environment TBD
and other
support teams
Things still need to be finished

MB Env’s &
deployment
What KTon MB
all is being done
side in terms of support
Get Admin Access to
install MQ Explorer
This is need in order to browser
MQ landscape . Access and
Understanding of
Willy
How its tool
been use and
configured to monitor the MQ
realstate

Access to Jump box &

servers
UAT & PROD Env’s need Jump
server access.
Questions