Role: Mainframe Support Administrator
Location: Parsippany, New Jersey
Emp Type: Permanent Job
Interview: Phone/Skype
~7+ years
1. Strong technical skills
2. Good communication skills
3. Technical background of Mainframe technologies - Cobol, IMS DB/DC, DB2, MQ, SCLM
Mainframe Admin
• Mainframe Support with following:
• Performance monitoring – Omegamon, TEPs and IMS PA
o Product review e.g. Compuware, IRONSTREM (Syncsort) – system analysis with Splunk
• Change management – SCCD tickets, Adhoc region recycles
• Capacity planning – System, Project impact and Monthly review
• Development team support for
o Implementations
o Performance reporting
o Issues Resolutions
o RFS Switch
o MVS2 stability
• Vendor Liaison (Compuware, IBM etc.)
o Abend Aid, Strobe, Xpeditor, TDZ, Topaz plan etc.
o Syncsort
Ironstream
o Intelimagic
o ASG
Viewdirect/InfoPac
• Planning
o Outages – gens, Cycles, MVS1/2
o Upgrades – z/OS, IMS, DB2, z/VM, MQ, COBOL, etc.
o Monthly review with IBM
• Reporting
o Linux Capacity report review
o Joint report – z/OS plus zLinux(FH) for CPU and transactional response times
o Linux CPU Metric
• Support IBM with Linux monitoring, alerting and performance reporting.
• TDD review for Mainframe Impact
• Build out notifications
• Supporting POT/POC via TEPs and Reporting
• Building monitors across platform (zLinux and zOS)
• Health check, dashboard reviews
Person will have opportunity to work in highly visible IT project of a leading car rental major based out of USA
Bachelor Degree
Cobol, db2, Mainframe