Lead Mainframe Systems Engineer

Position: Lead Mainframe /Systems Engineer
Location: Reston VA #HYBRID
Duration: 3 months #C2H
Interviews: 1^st Virtual / 2nd In-Person
Rate: 65/hr

Job Description:

• Defines designs and develops system requirements.
• Performs trade-off analysis of performance life-cycle cost risk producibility and other system or program requirements.
• Bachelors Degree (Information Technology or Computer Science)
• Senior or lead mainframe z/OS Systems Engineer to support the mainframe platform and environments and help in the maintenance transformation and modernization of the Client mainframe technology stack.

Tasks:

• Lead and participate in the analysis design development and implementation of mainframe system engineering activities.
• Work with existing mainframe managed service provider to improve and optimize services to internal and external customers and improve resiliency and availability of the z/OS mainframe platform.
• Analyze and recommend improvements to the scalability and resiliency of applications and systems running on Z platform.
• Provide hands on technical support for incident assessment and resolution for restoration of service.
• Support problem Root Cause Analysis (RCA).

Competencies:

1. Solid leadership and hands on technical experience
2. Good project management and ability to provide technical guidance to diverse teams.
3. Internal drive intellectual curiosity ability to learn and desire to help the customers succeed.
4. Strong technical skills as well as good business acumen
5. Comfortable working with all levels of the organization

Required Skills:

• Infrastructure engineer with a minimum of 8-10 years experience supporting IBM zOS Systems in a SYSPLEX environment with the following skills:
• RACF -Security Administration 5-10 years experience
• ZOS Systems Programmer 5-10 years of experience
• CICS TS Systems Programming 5 -10 years of experience
• MQ 5-10 years Systems Programming
• DB2 5-10 years usage doesnt have to be at Systems Programming level
• ISV Production installation experience
• General Systems Automation support (IBM System Automation)
• General Batch Scheduling support Control-M

Strongly Desired Skills:

• SYSPLEX and ICF configuration and tuning. Experience in de-coupling Sysplex environment is a plus.
• Experience with Middleware interfaces such as AIX WebSphere Networks LDAP is preferred
• Working knowledge of network communication protocols (TCPIP)
• Excellent knowledge of hardware infrastructure of IBM z16 and Dell/EMC storage subsystems.
• Pervasive encryption on z/OS
• Ransomware solutioning for mainframe
• Java/J2EE
• DB2/UDB

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

30% Installs tunes upgrades troubleshoots and maintains all computer systems relevant to the supported applications including all necessary tasks to perform operating system administration user account management disaster recovery strategy and networking configuration.

25% Develop and implement techniques to prevent system problems troubleshoots incidents to recover services and support the root cause analysis

20% Evaluates new systems by performing in-depth tests including end-user reviews. Researches software and related products to support recommendations and purchasing. Determines systems integration issues by evaluating components; developing and completing performance tests; analyzing test data; studying project requirements; analyzing user and potential user input; evaluating similar and related products and systems. Develop system automation and system integration of business processes.

15% Improves engineering job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.

10% Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team members.

Thanks & Regards
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LAXMAN
Team Lead - Talent Acquisition
KMM Technologies Inc.
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