Mainframe zOS and Storage Engineer - TCS USA

JD Title  :  Mainframe z/OS Administrator (Level-2.5/3)

Job Description

Title of Position : Mainframe z/OS and Mainframe Storage Admin

Summary of key responsibilities

Minimum 10+ years of hands-on technical experience as a Mainframe zOS & Mainframe Storage Admin

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/Storage in a Technical Capacity

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

Years of Experience

Minimum 10+ years of hands-on technical experience as a Mainframe zOS Admin

 Technical requirements

·         Hands-on experience with z12/z13/z14/z15 Mainframe HW and Sysplex Setup

·         z/OS v2.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, Tivoli SA Automation

·         Tivoli SA knowledge is very important

·         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