Job Description
Role
: z/OS Admin
Desired Years of Relevant Experience: 9 to 13 years of experience
Primary Skills Required:
Deep understanding of z/OS services structure, JES concepts, parallel sysplex/GDPS and catalog management.
Role Type: Right (Contract) to hire - REMOTE
Please note, you’ll be on the payroll of Tech Brains Solutions INC.
General Description Responsibilities: - Troubleshooting technical issues.
- Responsible for successful completion of Installation, configuration and migration.
- Ensure maximum uptime according to the SLA.
- Improves and maintains customer and employee satisfaction.
- Perform problem determination followed by root cause analysis and documentation.
- Implement changes to z/OS and installed SW followed by documentation.
- Participate in analyzing, planning and implementation of upgrades to z/OS and installed SW.
- New products installation, testing and customization.
- Working with incident and change management tools.
- Understand and implement specific customer requirements.
- Perform root cause analysis.
- Defining processes and ensuring that the processes are adhered to.
- Responsible for strategizing a backup plan and test plan for failure scenario.
- Monitoring and maintaining SLA requirements by the team members.
- Planning Backup/Restoration Strategy for 24x7 operation support.
- Testing / Auditing/processes as required from time to time.
- Identify Skill gaps and plan for training / knowledge updating.
Skill set Requirements Mandatory:-- Fully understand z/OS services structure, JES concepts, parallel sysplex/GDPS, catalog management.
- PARMLIB configuration and JES customization.
- Knowledge of JCL, REXX, CLIST and Modify Assembler EXITS.
- Knowledge of z/OS HW, LPAR, HMC.
- IMS/MQ Series (Web Sphere MQ).
- RACF experience.
- Knowledge of installing and supporting few commonly used ISV products like CA-View, Tape management tool (CA-1), Scheduling tools (BMC Incontrol, CA-7) etc.,
- Knowledge of USS management.
- Capable of installing regular maintenance (RSUs).
- Supporting any hardware or software upgrade in the environment.
- Capable of Installing/upgrading CICS and related products on a mainframe.
- Maintain reliability, availability of CICS systems software.
- Good knowledge in usage of transactions like CEMT, CEDA etc.,
- Good Knowledge of SMP/E, SQL, DB2 online and offline utilities, ZPARMS, DB2 logs and BSDS, DB2 Commands, DDF etc.
- Install and use performance monitoring tools and products(like SAS, MXG, CA-MICS, Strobe and the Omegamon products).
- Expertise in tuning and debugging performance problems for z/OS systems including application workloads.
- Perform problem diagnostics and resolution. Monitor system performance and tune when required.
- Well versed in storage capacity planning and configuration and should have good familiarity with typical z/OS application performance analysis.
- Capable of z/OS Performance Analysis using various tools such as IBM's RMF, SMF and subsystem analysis tools.
- Capable of Installing, Customizing and maintaining IBM and other ISV products related to Automations.
Good to Have: - Experience in mainframe automation and Performance & Capacity Management will be an added advantage.
- Experience in Customization of ISV/OEM products used for Automations and monitoring tools like Netview, OPS/MVS, SA z/OS, Tivoli Suite of monitoring and automation products, BMC AO, TEP, Control-O etc.
- SAS Programming Skills, Retrofit SAS Code for MXG application post Product Upgrade.
Soft Skills/Other skills: - Excellent communication and conversation skills (Verbal and Written). Customer facing.
- Good documentation skills.
- Good working knowledge of MS OFFICE (Including MS Project and Visio).
- Should have a good customer handling skill.
- Able to handle unforeseen situations.
- High level of acceptance.
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