Day shift position - 5 days a week alternating shifts based on coverage. Need someone who is flexible on hours ie 9-5, 11-7, 10-6. Need to be able to work on Saturdays upon request. Training will be limited and the candidate must have all required technical skills and strong general (soft)skills.
Required Skills:
Requires the judicious exercise of privileged Mainframe access and rigorous adherence to security and operational policies.
Must have strong expertise in Tivoli Workload Scheduler 9.3 (or above) in an end-to-end environment and experience with event-based scheduling.
Experience using CA-11 (CA Workload Automation Restart Option for z/OS Schedulers)
Strong experience and knowledge of industry standard command line interface tools and hardware consoles.
Operational knowledge of Mainframe z/OS, TSO commands, Console, JCL, Batch Execution and Monitoring.
Complete familiarity with the IBM Master Console interface.
Experience with at least two of the following monitoring tools: Omegamon, Sysview, Net view, Focal point, and Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
Have strong familiarity with Job Entry Subsystem (JES) commands on the mainframe.
Familiarity with CICS and file control (ability to allocate and deallocate).
Familiarity with controlling system tasks via with IBM System Automation or CA Ops MVS.
Strong attention to detail.
Strong English written and verbal skills (able to communicate to customers and stakeholders).
Ability to digest security, cybersecurity, and policy training documents.
Familiarity with Service-Now ticketing software.
Experience with Skype for Windows and Zoom.
Familiarity with Windows interface and toolsets.
Excellent MS Excel, MS Word, and MS Outlook skills.
Ability to create and improve technical procedural documentation.
Preferred Skills:
Knowledge of IBM Z Mainframe and z/OS
Knowledge of OS/390 Operations
JCL and batch problem diagnostic skills
Knowledge of Data Transfer protocols
NDM, FTP ITIL certification a plus.
Previous Financial Firm experience
Knowledge and experience with high-availability environments a plus.