Administration/Production Control Technician

Job Description

Job Administration/Production Control Technician . This position is responsible for monitoring job flows controlled by the CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries) scheduling system. The jobs being run executed on either a z/OS mainframe, UNIX, or PeopleSoft server. The position preferably requires knowledge of tools and utilities that run under z/OS, PeopleSoft, and/ or UNIX. The technician must be able to respond quickly to job failures by determining the general cause of the problem and contacting the appropriate on-call staff member for remediation. The candidate will also be required to occasionally migrate software to the production and/or test environments. Other duties included documenting problems, setting up job flow dependencies, and executing/troubleshooting test flows.

Preferred Skills:

• Extensive experience working in Production Control with mainframe or mid-range computer Familiarity with establishing job dependencies

• Experience troubleshooting JCL errors, using GDGs, and utilities such as File-AID and IDCAMS Knowledge of CA Workload Automation DE or similar enterprise scheduling package

• Knowledge of z/OS JCL and TSO/ISPF

• Experience with mainframe compile, link, and bind procedures

• Familiarity with file transfer protocols such as FTPS and/or Connect: Direct

• Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills. Strong understanding of standard SDLC methodologies

• Knowledge of IMS, D82 Knowledge of UNIX

• Knowledge of PUTTY, WinSCP

• Familiarity with Rational Tools (ClearQuest and ClearCase) Familiarity with MS-Word and Excel

• Knowledge of PeopleSoft People Tools (Process Monitor)

Experience:

• 3 - 5 years of related scheduling experience with a Windows-based scheduling system.

• 5 years' experience escalating and documenting critical job failures and schedule problems.

• 5 years of experience with hands-on work with executing and performing preliminary troubleshooting activities involving: scheduler, batch processes, and cycle flows.

Minimum Qual Requirements:

1. A baccalaureate degree froman accredited college in computer science, engineering or a related field and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to information technology service management, process management, operations;

2. A baccalaureate degree froman accredited college and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to information technology service management, process management, operations

3. Education and/or experience which is equivalentto "1" or"2"above..