Job description

Responsibilities:

· Evaluate and review new physical and logical design requirements and correlate with the recommendations provided by architects/vendors and address any gaps, when necessary.

· Review and certify the proposed project estimates, milestones and deliverables out of the assessment phase

· Provide On-call support for z/OS, Network & drive any z/OS related issue with respective.

· Lead software upgrades and maintenance activities.

· Diagnose and resolve errors in major operating systems and subsystem components (e.g., z/OS, CICS, DB2,JES2 system Z) and other critical required software

· Resolve complex systems integration issues including activities associated with various distributed platforms.

· Capture risk and gather the mitigation plan during any upgrades

· Coordinating the testing, troubleshooting, and modifying information systems so that they operate effectively

· Generate, publish and communicate Project progress

· Assuring all IT activities are performed within the parameters of applicable compliance, codes, and regulations.

· Evaluating technology risks in order to develop a disaster recovery and BCP

· Validate the archival or decommission plan proposed out of the assessment

Required Skills/Qualifications:

· 14+ years of work Experience with other mainframe architects and vendors, communicating project progress/status expectations, and reviewing deliverables

· Excellent understanding of System z architecture with understanding of Network architecture.

· Develop operational standards, provide technical assistance to application developers and operations personnel

· Strong experience with IBM z/OS operating system and subsystem Components

· Strong knowledge on Data center Migration including addressing Technical Show stopper during Datacenter Migration.

· Assists in evaluating and selecting major software and hardware subsystems for operational efficiency and to reduce operating costs

· Parallel Sysplex, SMPE, REXX, RMF, SMF, WLM, Understanding of System z architecture, zOSMF and zOSMF configuration and setup

· System parameters/parmlib maintenance

· Capable of planning and supporting Disaster recovery exercises

· Process client requests for system software modifications, Strong knowledge of all z/OS utilities

· Knowledge Catalog management, IBM system utilities, VTAM, TCPIP, RACF and GDPS

· Extensive experience with providing performance and tuning using monitoring tools (f. ex. z/VM Performance Monitor or other tools)

· Ability to support network configuration and maintenance

· Knowledge on DFSMS, DFSMShsm, Flashcopy, ICF Catalogs, HCD

· Experience with system indicators (logs, dumps, error) logs for pro-active management of system problems

· Experience in Coordinating with Vendor to complete the upgrades

· Business knowledge and Application understanding

Preferred Skills/Qualification:

· Good to have z/VM, zVSE and z/Linux

· Knowledge on z/OS Data Replication Strategy

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $140,000.00 - $160,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

• This is a FTE Position only for USC & GC.

Experience:

• Network architecture (Required)
• z/OS (Required)
• SME (Required)

Work Location: Remote

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