IT zOS Systems Programmer

Priority Technical Skills to Focus on

Required Knowledge & Skills:
At least 8 years of experience as a zOS Systems Programmer leading projects and making critical and complex decisions.
Experience with z/OS Parallel Sysplex and Coupling Facility environments.
TSO/ISPF/SDSF/JCL
Disaster Recovery
General knowledge and understanding the mainframe hardware software processors etc.
HMC skills.
SMP/E
Storage (DASD and virtual tape systems)

Preferred Knowledge & Skills:
RACF
z/OS UNIX
HCD
WLM

Desirable Knowledge & Skills:
Omegamon
Infoprint
REXX
RMM
Catalog Management
Capacity Planning for zOS
Apache Server
z/OSMF

Job Description:

Areas of focus:
Leadership:
Provides input for defining state mainframe technical direction.
Provides definition and input for state mainframe services and SOPs.
Participate with acquisition processes that are highly technical and procedural typically involving millions of dollars and have long range impacts.
Prepares monitors evaluates and reports progress for work plans.
Coordinates broad work efforts (within and between work units and state entities).
Provides input for performance evaluations leave time and other administrative actions as required.
Hardware Duties:
Integrates and supports changes in the technology infrastructure.
Defines and maintains mainframe hardware configuration via Hardware Management Console (HMC). Also able to perform critical functions like IPL of mainframe LPARs via the HMC.
Develops strategic technical direction and guides the use of technology for the state and other nonstate entities. This includes providing the conceptual design of the mainframe and providing the technical requirements for the acquisition of hardware.
Implements best practices and tuning recommendations within the mainframe environment to achieve optimum processing capabilities.
Coordinates and monitors all hardware maintenance with vendor(s) and the state mainframe services.
Disaster Recovery Duties:
Develops and maintains concepts and plans that will accommodate multiple and varying degrees of disaster scenarios while maintaining core processing requirements.
Provides and maintains disaster site requirements that include but are not limited to: site size electrical heating and cooling security hardware connectivity for data and IP connections networking operational staffing considerations and contractual vendor agreements.
Develops and maintains procedures for mirrored data and periodic data/resource backup concepts. These include conceptual hardware and software solutions required to support these efforts.
Provides requirements into technology and solutions that provide data links between hardware sites and monitors these processes for errors and failures.
Develops and maintains disaster recovery drills to ensure hardware software and recovery procedures perform as expected.
Supports other entities with their disaster recovery activities at the state mainframe site.
Security:
Fulfills mainframe security administration or audit role
Maintains accounts to control access to: technical users and clients client data system and client resources and client functionality
Provides web certificate management which includes troubleshooting problems. This includes and is not limited to: software requirements installation and any configuration
Oversees and coordinates periodic audits required for mainframe users data and software including all reporting requirements
Software Duties:
Researches vendor software announcements of new releases and products and prepares appropriate action recommendations. Also researches vendor software products as necessary to fulfill state requirements.
Develops software installation and implementation plans which include: installation configuration testing and migration.
Designs enhancements or processes to incorporate new function and methodology into mainframe software products.
Schedules and coordinates all software changes while considering all other facets.
Installs and maintains IBM and OEM software using SMP/E or other vendor specific processes.
Storage:
Administers all aspects of the mainframe storage for disk and tape data sets which includes but is not limited to allocation of data sets storage allocation routines disk provisioning and reclamation VTOC/VVDS diagnosis and corrective action etc.
Develops processes and procedures to ensure mirroring backup and recovery capabilities are established.
Develops and executes procedures for planned and unplanned outages for both local and remote Disk and Tape.
Mainframe Print Services:
Designs develops and maintains the mainframe printing solution
Provides mainframe printing support including adding updating and deletion of printers
Capacity Planning:
Performs reporting and monitoring to measure; capacity performance and growth for mainframe hardware.
Performs hardware capacity planning that allow us to manage hardware changes without adversely impacting services through a wellplanned process.
Troubleshoots mainframe performance problems and offer tuning solutions to achieve optimum processing capabilities.
Collects/verifies usage data for capacity performance problem and billing.
Defines performance objectives and capacity considerations for mainframe plus monitors and evaluates system performance against those objectives and considerations.
General:
Performs research to augment required knowledge needed within an area to provide a firm base to solve problems and develop required solutions.
Performs monitoring to ensure system performance is error free system resources being managed well and system performance objectives are being met.
Works closely and appropriately with other state technical staff and business users and other nonstate technical staff.
Performs problem resolution at the highest level using considerable intuitive and deductive analysis with critical thinking.
Provides daily support to other IT staff including; IT Application Developers Network Operations Center staffs and other Systems Programmers.
Evaluates the business requirements for the performance and availability of new applications.
Plans/participates in disaster recovery exercises and potential disaster events.
Provides mentoring and assistance to other SP staff.