Z/OS Mainframe Programmer Contract Onsite in Plano, TX 3 days a week

Overview

Remote
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent

Skills

Endevor
TSO / ISPF
z/os
cobol
JCL

Job Details

  • Plays a key role as an individual contributor in engineering and implementing various aspects of a complex IBM Mainframe environment.
  • Maintains and configures CICS environments and CICS web services.
  • Ensures availability of CICS regions and troubleshooting issues.
  • Maintains, supports and troubleshoots the z/OS operating system and various ISV products from vendors; IBM, Broadcom and others.
  • Participates in Mainframe Software / Hardware / Operating System Upgrades,
    • Plan upgrades and develop schedules.
    • Coordinate and facilitate software installation and validation with application teams and delivery partners.
    • Review new features and provide necessary documentation and procedures to Application development teams
    • Work with vendors to resolve any issues.
  • Administration of Mainframe SCM application (Broadcom Endevor).
  • Maintaining TCPIP Pagent policy.
  • Co-ordinates and ensures successful day-to-day deliverables from Delivery partners.
  • Providing technical assistance to application developers and support teams
  • Participates in mainframe disaster recovery exercises.
  • Assist security team with z/OS mainframe security (Top Secret) and user profile issues.
  • Perform mainframe system performance analysis, reporting and apply performance tuning as necessary.
  • On-call rotation
  • Incident and Problem management

Required Skills

  • Bachelor s degree or equivalent required.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience as a Mainframe System Programmer (CICS or z/OS or other) or Technical Specialist.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with any combination of z/OS, CICS, TCPIP, Supersession, Omegamon, SMF, RMF, Top Secret, Storage systems and other ISV products.
  • Proficiency in TSO/ISPF, SDSF and JCL
  • Experience with Assembler, COBOL, REXX and SAS programming.