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This job is responsible for being the first point of contact for requests or service failure incidents and maintaining stability for a portfolio of applications. Key responsibilities include performing initial investigations, mitigating impacts through routines and engaging in triages, responding to user requests, and working with technology teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues. Job expectations include following well defined Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and partnering with experts to improve service levels by proposing changes to monitoring, alerting, and configuration.

Responsibilities:

• Monitors and supports application components and related infrastructure, acts as the first point of contact for users, and responds to alerts regarding potential production incidents
• Interprets and monitors dashboards, tools, and reports in order to proactively identify and address potential issues prior to production impact, escalating issues to senior team members or subject matter experts as needed
• Performs environment routing and cycling, implements splash pages, and conducts user ID administration access provisioning/deprovisioning (additions, modifications, deletions) for applications
• Works with technical partners to generate status updates, create technical detail for awareness communications, such as infrastructure, application and client impact, and component points of failure, and schedules follow up meetings
• Partners with change and release teams to support implementations and proactively identify potential issues resulting from changes
• Tracks incidents and requests in a defined system, executes procedures reliably, fulfills requests from business users and operations, and escalates issues as needed to solve incidents quickly
• Keeps operational procedures updated and provides data that adheres to documentation requirements and audits

Position Summary

• The individual will coordinate the weekly mainframe maintenance windows within established SLAs. Review changes utilizing BMC tool, align the moving parts into a concrete plan, pivot when the unexpected happens, has a strong attention to detail, is a leader/team player, and is able to calmly multi-task during a high stress window and see the big picture.
• Escalate elongated issues risking SLA.
• Document issues or improvements.
• Able to provide and communicate process improvements/solutions across differing audiences including technical, managerial.
• Participate in the resolution process for problems where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of various factors.
• Take part in multiple projects and activities related to special initiatives or operations.
• Leading and facilitating meetings to debate and understand risks associated with change and how they impact the production environment.

Required Qualifications

• Able to work weekdays and depending on the job responsibilities, a rotating weekend night schedule. (Includes Saturdays and Sundays)
• Strong working knowledge (> 5 yrs.) and experience on mainframe technology infrastructure utilizing the zOS operating system, transaction and queuing systems, database systems and batch systems and understanding system start-up/shutdown, console messaging, and technology dependencies.
• Strong Knowledge of standard mainframe tools such as TSO, JCL, JES2, SDSF, Console, etc.
• Experience with BMC Remedy.
• Able to closely vet change request that can be disruptive, need operational assistance and/or requires a service outage on Mainframe, understanding of infrastructure and business applications and able to minimize disruption of services.
• Strong ability to multi-task and manage activities during a coordinated multi-technology change window.
• Strong organization, attention to detail and project management skills.
• Flexibility to react and adapt to rapidly changing scenarios, able to pivot where needed to ensure changes are successfully installed in the window while still meeting SLAs.
• Exhibits excellent communication and interpersonal skills, collaborates effectively with team members, cross-functional teams, applications, and business units.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Self-motivated and results-orientated, able to create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including but not limited to operator procedures, detailed scripts outlining task clearly, ensuring clarity and consistency.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written; must be able to appropriately convey ideas, concerns and opinions across differing levels of management
• The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
• Strong leadership and teamwork skills and experience in supervising junior staff or leading project teams is desired. Coordinating people and task to achieve goals.
• Works effectively with others by establishing and maintaining positive working relationships

Desired Qualifications

• Candidate must have 2 or more years of console operations work experience. Technical experiences should include operator knowledge of JES2, and MVS commands would be helpful.
• Candidate must understand the sensitive and critical nature of data processing and service level agreements and be able to proactively contribute to organizational goals and delivery targets.
• Knowledge of standard mainframe tools such as: ITSM, APVIEW, HMC, Microsoft office 365 suite products, MatterMost, Python, NETVIEW, SA z/OS.
• A working knowledge of HMC, IPL and POR procedures is a plus.
• Must be able to escalate issues and problems to support teams or upper management groups as required.
• Previous experience in performing similar function is highly desirable.
• ITIL certification a plus.
• Strategic Thinker: able to anticipate business needs and growth opportunities. Challenging the status quo and continuously looking for opportunities to modernize and automate wherever we can.

Skills:

• Adaptability
• Analytical Thinking
• Influence
• Production Support
• Risk Management
• Automation
• Collaboration
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Innovative Thinking
• Project Management

Job Description:

Job Description:

This job is responsible for tool and service designs within a technical domain that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include creating infrastructure tools and their integration as a service, facilitating deployment of technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include looking for opportunities to improve efficiency when implementing and maintaining tools/services and embracing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Provides subject matter expertise and consulting services on a range of technologies and assists Technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers to ensure that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
• Assists with translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
• Assists in the evaluation of reference models, blueprints and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose
• Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes
• Conducts on-site evaluations of third-party products being considered for firm adoption
• Promotes an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
• Contributes to the creation/selection of functional and non-functional product evaluation requirements within and across domains

• Strong working Knowledge of IBM MQ concepts and other associated IBM components/facilities:
• MQ Objects and MQ subsystems
• Backup and recovery
• Logging and archiving
• TLS and certificates
• RACF
• SDSF
• MVS JCL
• TSO/ISPF
• Strong leadership and communication skills both written and verbal are required

Desired Qualifications

• 5+ Years relevant experience
• Significant experience with MQ Clusters and MQ shared queues.
• Experience with automation and monitoring concepts and tools.

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Automation
• Production Support
• Risk Management
• Adaptability
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Architecture
• Collaboration
• Innovative Thinking
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development

Job Description:

This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.