IT Service Management Specialist - Mainframe Production Control

Abrahams Consulting LLC
New York, NY, United States
about 1 month ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
$77,000.0 - $87,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Microsoft Windows Batch Processing Unix IBM Rational ClearCase File Transfer Protocol (FTP) SSL Extension Job Control Language (JCL) IBM Rational Clearquest Job Scheduling Mainframes PuTTY
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Z/OS Tso/ispf File-aid Process Monitor Information Technology People Soft

Job description

You will be responsible for:

  • Monitoring job flows through CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries)
  • Monitoring jobs running across z/OS, UNIX, and PeopleSoft
  • Quickly identifying the general cause of job failures
  • Contacting the appropriate on-call staff for remediation
  • Setting up job-flow dependencies
  • Executing and troubleshooting test flows
  • Documenting production problems
  • Occasionally migrating software to production and/or test environments
  • Performing preliminary troubleshooting of schedulers, batch processes, and cycle flows

Requirements

The strongest candidates will have demonstrated experience with:

  • Production Control in a mainframe or mid-range environment
  • Job scheduling and batch processing
  • CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries) or a similar enterprise scheduling platform
  • z/OS JCL
  • TSO/ISPF
  • Troubleshooting JCL errors and job failures
  • Establishing job-flow dependencies
  • Troubleshooting scheduler, batch processes, and cycle flows
  • Escalating and documenting critical job failures and scheduling problems
  • Responding quickly to production failures and coordinating with appropriate on-call technical staff

TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT

The position monitors job flows running on:

z/OS Mainframe UNIX PeopleSoft

Experience with the following is highly relevant:

GDGs File-AID IDCAMS Mainframe Compile/Link/Bind FTPS Connect:Direct IMS UNIX PuTTY WinSCP PeopleSoft Process Monitor ClearQuest ClearCase MS Word Excel, * 3-5 years of related scheduling experience with a Windows-based scheduling system
  • 5 years escalating and documenting critical job failures and schedule problems
  • 5 years hands-on experience executing and performing preliminary troubleshooting involving schedulers, batch processes, and cycle flows

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

One of the following:

Option 1: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field + 4 years of satisfactory full-time experience related to IT service management, process management, or operations.

OR

Option 2: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college + 8 years of satisfactory full-time experience related to IT service management, process management, or operations.

OR

Option 3: Equivalent education and/or experience. REC 432- IT Service Management …, If you have hands-on Production Control + job scheduling + batch processing experience, particularly in a mainframe/z/OS environment, we want to hear from you.

Benefits & conditions

Candidates whose experience does not demonstrate the core Production Control and scheduling requirements will not be considered.

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Pay: $77,000.00 - $87,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Dental insurance

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