Sr. Engineer, Mainframe

ABOUT FNTS

As a nationally recognized Cloud Service Provider FNTS has a proven history guiding our customers through their cloud journey. FNTS has a passion for all things multicloud and provides flexible cloud solutions with a continued focus on orchestrating agility transparency and IT optimization for our customers all while keeping cost containment topofmind. With an elevated security posture consisting of layered security solutions FNTS specializes in partnering with customers in highly regulated and compliancedriven industries.

Our culture and our employees are the heart of our story and were committed to their success! Please see below the details of this career opportunity and how it fits into our organizations success.

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It is anticipated that an incumbent in this role will work remotely 100% of the time and will share a hoteling workspace if/when working onsite as determined by business needs. The incumbent can work remotely from anywhere in the United States unless otherwise specified in the job posting. Work location is subject to change based on business needs.

Summary of the Job:

With over 20 years in the managed IT services industry First National Technology Solutions (FNTS) is a leading provider of flexible customized hosted and remotely managed services. Operating a stateoftheart data center and offering customized solutions and bestofbreed technology FNTS is a nationally recognized leader in managed IT services. With a classic Midwest culture FNTS employs an expert team who place high value on work ethics and personalized customer service.
FNTS is a subsidiary of First National of Nebraska Inc. (FNNI) a $20 billion multistate holding company headquartered in Omaha Nebraska with a strong heritage of banking excellence that dates back more than 150 years.

About This Role:

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The Mainframe Senior Engineer Position is part of a managed services engineering team. The Mainframe Senior Engineer is responsible for maintaining customer environments and solving technical problems in an efficient manner. In addition to maintaining the existing Mainframe systems you will help plan and migrate customer systems via tape save/restore or software replication expand our existing customers environments ensure proper handling of system backups and react in a break/fix capacity to escalate technical issues that compromise system operability and functionality. Candidates for this position must show previous Mainframe administrative operator and support experience in similar environments with emphasis on supporting technology such as z Series systems Virtual Tape environments Fiber switched and common networking knowledge related to Mainframe connectivity.

Key Responsibilities

Perform reporting functions as required or requested by customer
Support cases and incidents / problems not solvable by Ops
Installation maintenance and configuration of ISV products
Assist with hardware configuration and upgrades
Work as part of a multidisciplinary team migrating customer environments with minimal impact
Write and maintain system documentation
Work with customers to accomplish their migration to FNTS or remote management setup.
Using team roadmap implement technologies to achieve it e.g. develop new offerings through taking advantage of new hardware capabilities or additional OS capabilities such as Sysplexes
Install new software (OS & major subsystem) releases while working with customer on timing/testing/implementation.
Maintain golden/sandbox systems for templates
Participate in technical infrastructure projects as the Mainframe SME
Occasional after hours and weekend supportologies

The Ideal Candidate for This Role:

Job Qualifications

Mainframe Systems Engineer experience
z/OS Concepts (SDSF TSO HCD/IODF SMP/E)
z/OS Subsystems (JES2 WLM OMVS/USS SMF/RMF RACF ASM GRS)
Major Subsystems (CICS IMS DB2 Datacom MQ Series)
Experience with DBA and application support functions
Communication Concepts (VTAM TCP/IP)
Storage Management (SMS HSM DFDSS VSAM IDCAMS ICF Catalogs)
Knowledge of z systems hardware
Experience configuring LPARs using the Hardware Management Console
Experience with storage management in JBOD RAID and SAN environments
Experience defining and troubleshooting Printer configurations
Familiarity with Physical and Virtual tape library configuration and implementation
Experience performing OS Upgrades PTF Deployment and software installation
Experience configuring and deploying automation and monitoring tools
Selfmotivated and able to work independently
Excellent communication skills (written verbal and presentations)

Additional Qualifications:

z/VSE Concepts (POWER Classes Partitions MSHP BSM CICS ICCF Printer TCP/IP VTAM FTP)
z/VM Concepts (CP CMS User Maintenance Guest System Management)
Hardware familiarity
o DS8000
o TS7700
o 3480/3490/3590/TS1100
Virtual tape systems
Flashcopy and mirroring technologies

Compensation:

Compensation range (base pay): $88067.00$145309.00

This role may have a specific starting pay within this range.

Final compensation offer to candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon work experience education and/or skill level.

Benefits Overview:

We offer a variety of benefits designed to keep you and your family physically and financially healthy. Not only do we offer a competitive salary and worklife balance we offer benefits to match your needs:

• Medical Dental Vision Insurance

• 401k With Matching Contributions

• Time Off Programs

• Health Savings Account (HSA)/Dependent Care

• Employee Banking

• Growth Opportunities

• Tuition Assistance

• ShortTerm/LongTerm Disability Insurance

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