IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Administrator

Trigyn's direct government client has an immediate need for an IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Administrator in Albany, NY.

Primary Responsibilities:
? Administer, maintain, and support the IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) environment on IBM mainframe systems.
? Monitor daily workload processing to ensure scheduled jobs, job streams, and dependencies execute successfully and within established service levels.
? Configure, schedule, and manage batch workloads across enterprise applications and platforms.
? Analyze and resolve job failures, scheduling conflicts, resource contention issues, and workload bottlenecks.
? Perform workload forecasting, capacity planning, and schedule optimization to improve operational efficiency.
? Create, modify, and maintain job definitions, calendars, run cycles, workstations, and job streams.
? Support production batch processing, including incident response, troubleshooting, and recovery activities.
? Coordinate with application teams, system programmers, database administrators, and business units to implement scheduling requirements.
? Manage workload dependencies between mainframe and distributed systems.
? Develop and maintain scheduling standards, procedures, and operational documentation.
? Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and workload restoration activities.
? Ensure compliance with organizational security, change management, and audit requirements.
? Utilize IBM Dynamic Workload Console (DWC) to monitor, manage, and administer enterprise workloads.
? Configure and maintain DWC dashboards, monitoring views, alerts, and reporting functions.
? Troubleshoot workload execution issues using DWC monitoring and diagnostic tools.
? Support end users and operations staff in the use of DWC scheduling and monitoring capabilities.
? Implement and maintain workload automation policies using DWC administrative functions.
? Generate workload status, performance, and operational reports for management and technical teams.

Technical Support and Administration
? Perform installation, configuration, maintenance, and upgrades of IBM Workload Scheduler components.
? Manage scheduling agents, communication links, and workload automation infrastructure.
? Support integration between IWS and enterprise applications, databases, and middleware platforms.
? Implement workload automation best practices to improve reliability, availability, and performance.
? Conduct root cause analysis for recurring scheduling issues and recommend corrective actions.
? Participate in system testing, application deployments, and production implementation activities.

Mandatory Qualification:
? Works in the field of Information Technology, experienced in the usage and support of a collection of development platforms, technical architectures or business applications and products that run on those platforms - beyond that of a Programmer.
? Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

? 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.

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