- Planning, installing, customizing, and implementing software products.
- Planning, implementing, and carrying out software/hardware migrations and conversions.
- Performing analysis and producing management reports on software resource utilization.
- Providing technical assistance to programming and operations staff.
- Analyzing requirements and recommending software and hardware solutions.
- Evaluating existing systems software and recommending improvements.
- Performing problem determination and resolution.
- Implementing external security for software products.
- Training operations staff on new technology.
- Developing, maintaining, and executing Disaster Recovery plans where the recovery site is geographically remote using the data mirroring strategy for recovery. These plans are for the z/VM and Linux aspect of the disaster recovery implementation.
- Developing, maintaining, and executing z/VM and Linux-related security plans which conform to US government directives.
- Five years of experience as a VM Systems Programmer.
- Three years of experience must be using the VM/ESA or z/VM operating system.
- One year of recent demonstrated experience implementing z/VM technologies similar in scope to the one described in this solicitation.
- One year of recent demonstrated experience in implementing IBM Enterprise/zEnterprise Linux.
- Demonstrated experience in configuring IBM or plug-compatible attached hardware equipment for an IBM Enterprise/zEnterprise system.
- Demonstrated experience in presenting technical IT/telecommunication information to managers with little technical subject knowledge.
- Demonstrated experience performing z/VM and Linux software conversions, as well as release level upgrades. These upgrades are done using a new distribution of the system or using VMSES/E to upgrade a component.
- Recent experience in leading technically complex systems software/integration projects involving systems similar to one cited in this solicitation.
- Recent experience in implementing and maintaining virtual DASD volumes which map to real DASD architectures.
- Recent experience in developing, implementing, and maintaining operating system or subsystem exits in IBM assembler.
- Recent experience in performing problem determination and resolution using second level z/VM guest systems.
- Recent demonstrated experience in defining I/O configurations for z/VM guests.
- Recent demonstrated experience in implementing and testing a disaster recovery plan.
- Recent demonstrated experience in evaluating and implementing the facilities and options of RACF for VM.
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