z/OS Admin (Remote)

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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