Hello,
I hope you are doing great.
This is Padmavathi from Yochana IT Solutions, we have an urgent requirement with one of our clients, please go through the requirement below and let me know your interest. You can forward this opportunity to your friends or colleagues; so that we can help someone who may be desperately looking for opportunities. I sincerely appreciate your time
Role: z/OS System programmer
Location: Remote
Contract
Note: Not looking for Mainframe Application development or DBA profiles here. Hence pls share only z/OS System programmers or administrators.
JD:
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 24×7 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,
• 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
Thanks & Regards,
Padmavathi Vindeepu,
Resource Specialist,
Farmington Hills, MI,