Mainframe z/OS System Programmer

Role         ::         Mainframe z/OS System Programmer

Location ::          Salt Lake City, UT USA - Remote

Type        ::          Fulltime

Job Description

• Minimum 10+ years of hands-on technical experience as a Mainframe z/OS
• Prior experience working in a large Mainframe setup of minimum 5,000 MIPS and above.
• Manage BAU (Business As Usual) Service Delivery for Mainframe OS
• Hands on experience on ISV tools Installation, upgrade, migration for various vendor products
• Hands on experience for CA-ACF2 upgrade and Sailpoint-ACF2 integration
• This is for a pure Technical Hands-On role and not for a Team Lead Position
• Work on Daily Basis with Client/Customer Mainframe OS-Storage SMEs/Peers
• Work on MI (Major Incidents) / P1 (Priority-1) and lesser Tickets as a part of BAU Support
• Work on Problem/RCA and Change/CMR Tickets during the weekends.
• Provide 24 x 7 ON-CALL support as is the norm in BAU Service Delivery Role
• Support Mainframe Projects (HW Upgrade, OS Upgrade, ISV Products upgrade etc…) as per needs.
• Ensure Mainframe System Availability @ 99.99% and work towards meeting agreed SLAs

• Hands-on experience with z15/z16 Mainframe HW and Sysplex Setup
• z/OS v2.x,v3.x, JES2, DFSMS, VTAM, RACF/ACF2, TCP/IP, OMVS, RMF/SMF
• SMP/E, various ISV products, UserMods and Exits.
• IPL/POR procedures, various Mainframe Consoles
• Mainframe Tools – OMEGAMON, TEPS, Netview, SIEM
• Assembler, REXX, JCL and CA-OPS/MVS Automation
• IODF/IOCDS, HCD/HCM
• Mainframe Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning
• PARMLIB and PROCLIB concatenation, Memory Regions customization and maintenance
• Experience in Disaster Recovery setup and conducting DR drills.
• Experience in Mainframe MIPS Optimization, Software rationalization
• Experience with parallel sysplex environment and managing couple datasets
• Experience with OPSMVS automation tool