IT Specialist

HBITS: HBITS-07-14824

Expert, IT Specialist

30 month contract

Interview: Virtual Interview

Work model: 40% telecommuting, 60% Office per week

--- Project Description ---
This position will work on tax modernization in the platform's
operations team as a part of the scheduling and automations
team. Tax modernization is a multi-year project focused on
modernizing the IT infrastructure and applications for the NYS
tax department. One of the key components of that is
modernizing the day-to-day operations through scheduling and
automation.

--- Day-to-Day Tasks ---
1. Administer, maintain, and support the IBM Workload
Scheduler (IWS) environment on IBM mainframe systems.
2. Monitor daily workload processing to ensure
scheduled jobs, job streams, and dependencies execute
successfully and within established service levels.
3. Configure, schedule, and manage batch workloads
across enterprise applications and platforms.
4. Analyze and resolve job failures, scheduling conflicts,
resource contention issues, and workload bottlenecks.
5. Perform workload forecasting, capacity planning, and
schedule optimization to improve operational efficiency.
6. Create, modify, and maintain job definitions, calendars,
run cycles, workstations, and job streams.
7. Support production batch processing, including
incident response, troubleshooting, and recovery activities.
8. Coordinate with application teams, system
programmers, database administrators, and business units to
implement scheduling requirements.
9. Manage workload dependencies between mainframe
and distributed systems.
10. Develop and maintain scheduling standards,
procedures, and operational documentation.
11. Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and
workload restoration activities.
12. Ensure compliance with organizational security,
change management, and audit requirements.
13. Utilize IBM Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) to
monitor, manage, and administer enterprise workloads.
14. Configure and maintain DWC dashboards, monitoring
views, alerts, and reporting functions.
15. Troubleshoot workload execution issues using DWC
monitoring and diagnostic tools.
16. Support end users and operations staff in the use of
DWC scheduling and monitoring capabilities.
17. Implement and maintain workload automation policies
using DWC administrative functions.
18. Generate workload status, performance, and
operational reports for management and technical teams.
19. Perform installation, configuration, maintenance, and
upgrades of IBM Workload Scheduler components.
20. Manage scheduling agents, communication links, and
workload automation infrastructure.
21. Support integration between IWS and enterprise
applications, databases, and middleware platforms.
22. Implement workload automation best practices to
improve reliability, availability, and performance.
23. Conduct root cause analysis for recurring scheduling
issues and recommend corrective actions.
24. Participate in system testing, application deployments,
and production implementation activities.

--- Required Qualifications ---
84 months Experience using administering IBM Workload
Scheduler (IWS/Tivoli Workload Scheduler) in a z/OS mainframe
environment.
84 months Experience using and administering IBM Dynamic
Workload Console (DWC) for workload administration and
monitoring.
84 Months Experience Knowledge of IBM z/OS operations, JCL,
TSO/ISPF, SDSF, and batch processing concepts.
60 Months Experience workload automation concepts including
calendars, dependencies, critical paths, and event-driven
scheduling.
60 Months Experience troubleshooting batch processing failures
and performing production support.

MVP Consulting Plus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process.