Overview
Hybrid
$80 - $87
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Skills
IBM zOS
RACF
Job Details
zOS Systems Engineer CTH Hybrid (primarily remote- on site interview)
PURPOSE:
Seeking a senior or lead mainframe z/OS Systems Engineer to support the mainframe platform and environments and help in the maintenance, transformation, and modernization of the mainframe technology stack.
Tasks:
- Lead and participate in the analysis, design, development, and implementation of mainframe system engineering activities.
- Work with existing mainframe managed service provider to improve and optimize services to internal and external customers and improve resiliency and availability of the z/OS mainframe platform.
- Analyze and recommend improvements to the scalability and resiliency of applications and systems running on Z platform.
- Provide hands on technical support for incident assessment and resolution for restoration of service.
- Support problem Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
Competencies:
- Solid leadership and hands on technical experience
- Good project management and ability to provide technical guidance to diverse teams.
- Internal drive, intellectual curiosity, ability to learn, and desire to help the customers succeed.
- Strong technical skills as well as good business acumen
- Comfortable working with all levels of the organization Required
Skills:
- Infrastructure engineer with a minimum of 8-10 years experience supporting IBM zOS Systems in a SYSPLEX environment with the following skills:
- RACF -Security Administration 5-10 years experience
- ZOS Systems Programmer 5-10 years of experience
- CICS TS Systems Programming 5 -10 years of experience
- MQ 5-10 years Systems Programming
- DB2 5-10 years usage , doesn t have to be at Systems Programming level
- ISV Production installation experience
- General Systems Automation support (IBM System Automation)
General Batch Scheduling support Control-M Strongly Desired Skills:
- SYSPLEX and ICF configuration and tuning. Experience in de-coupling Sysplex environment is a plus.
- Experience with Middleware interfaces such as AIX, WebSphere, Networks, LDAP is preferred
- Working knowledge of network communication protocols (TCPIP)
- Excellent knowledge of hardware infrastructure of IBM z16 and Dell/EMC storage subsystems.
- Pervasive encryption on z/OS
- Ransomware solutioning for mainframe
- Java/J2EE
- DB2/UDB
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