Mainframe Administrator

Job Description

Brief Description:

The Mainframe Engineer III candidate must have experience in one or more of the following disciplines:  z/OS installation and customization, storage management, hardware configuration, networking, performance management and capacity planning, or ISV installation and customization in a Parallel Sysplex environment.  The candidate must be able to complete work on time in an ever-changing and complex environment and take direction from leaders and managers.  Mentoring required in this role so mentoring skills and experience are desired.  This position is part of a team that and the candidate must be willing to embrace being a team player.

Detailed Description:

This candidate will be filling an experienced systems mainframe engineer position.  The candidate must have the following skills:

• Advanced or expert level SMP/E experience.
• Debugging and tuning experience.
• Creation of detailed documentation of procedures and practices.
• Change control in a regulated environment.
• Develop, document, and deliver pre- and post-implementation impacts of zSeries hardware and software.
• Recognize areas of improvement leading to elimination of reoccurring issues and reduce mean time to recovery.
• Provide technical direction and education to programmers, analysts and technical support associates.
• Provides 24x7 on call support within a team rotation.   

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 5-10 years of solid experience in z/OS engineering

Preferred Qualifications (candidate should have some of the following):

• MainView installation, maintenance and customization. 
• z/OS and zSeries hardware networking configuration.
• Performance and capacity reporting with zPCA and/or SAS/MXG and/or Intellimagic.
• zOSMF product installation and deployment.
• Experience with TCP/IP configuration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with storage management.
• Performance management with WLM.
• Reporting and planning with zPCA and/or SAS/MXG
• Independent Software Vendor installation and maintenance
• z/OS installation, customization and maintenance.
• Coupling Facility updates.
• ChangeMan Administration.
• Managing multiple tasks and delivering on committed target dates.
• Coordinates with application programmers and users to determine symptoms and ensure accurate problem resolution.
• Knowledge of banking industry business processes a plus.