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. Z0EaiEyVjW Apply Job!