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.