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Direct Hire -not able to accommodate C2C candidates at this time.
Well established IT firm is seeking an experienced z/OS System Programmer. The candidate must have expert knowledge and hands-on experience, working with the latest generation of IBM mainframes, and the more recent releases of the z/OS operating system and Parallel Sysplex.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership on best practices for operating system configurations, in areas of resiliency and performance
- z/OS operating system installation and customization using the IBM Serverpac process
- Program product installation and customization
- Performance and tuning activities, which includes monitoring the system activities and making recommendations to the application developers on how to improve the overall performance of their application
- Apply operating system and program product fixes on a regular basis
Qualifications
- Minimum of 7+ years of experience as Sr. z/OS System Programmer, including 5+ years of technical experience in designing and implementing medium to large scale Parallel Sysplex configurations.
- Demonstrated customer service and client management experience.
- Strong knowledge of z/OS operating system architecture, internals, operations, and recovery scenarios
- Skilled in with Mainframe Automation (BMC AutoOperator or Netview/SA)
- Demonstrated experience with RACF or ACF2
- Knowledgeable of DS8k storage and copy services manager (CSM)
- Working experience with major subsystems, such as: CICS, DB2, and MQSeries and knowledge of various monitoring tools, such as: Omegamon/MVS, Omegamon/CICS, RMF, and CMF.
- Must be familiar with mainframe performance and tuning best practices
- Excellent interpersonal skills and responsiveness to client need
- Ability to travel to a few days per quarter to various client sites (as needed)
- Strong organizational, time management and communication (written and oral) skills
- BS/BA degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience in the Information Systems field.
