Mainframe z/OS System Programmer

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