You will be responsible for developing and delivering IBM GDPS® solution design, architecture, and implementation of IBM GDPS® solutions which may include:
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
3+ years’ experience working with:
- z/OS High Availability technology and capabilities including Parallel Sysplex (eg: GRS, Coupling Facilities and Sysplex Failure Management)
- z/VM system programming or Linux on z Systems administration
- Copy Services technology including Metro Mirror, Global Mirror and z/OS Global Mirror (plus FlashCopy Software replication
- Successfully delivering IBM Z projects and/or architecting and planning infrastructures for customer’s data centers
3+ years’ experience in:
- Customer or executive facing communications, requirements analysis, documentation, and report presentations.
- Networking skills especially TCP/IP knowledge
- Tivoli System Automation and/or NetView
- Storage management experience using DFSMS
- Ability to lead customer technical workshops up to 20+ people.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- English: Fluent
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Familiarity with installation and configuration of IBM Z products.
- Familiarity with Git migrations.
- Familiarity with the following products will be highly regarded: Developer for z/OS (IDz), Enterprise Edition (IDzEE), Application Delivery Foundation for z/OS (ADFz), Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI), IBM Z Development and Test (ZD&T) and IBM Virtual Dev and Test for z/OS (ZVDT)
- Exposure to CI/CD
- Technical expertise with COBOL and JAVA coding
- Experience with delivery of training.
- In addition to the above experience, the ideal candidate will have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Dynamic team player who is comfortable working in a small, but rapidly evolving environment.