Description

Experience Required:

Required Length & Type of Experience:
• 10+ years of technical experience in engineering and supporting a large, complex mainframe and open system environment.
• 5+ years of providing technical leadership and engineering assistance to experienced and junior infrastructure engineers and administrators.
• Hands on, proven experience installing IBM mainframe hardware, operating systems and major third-party software vendors including CA, BMC, LRS and Information Builders.
• Experience in designing, implementing and operating enterprise-wide mainframe and server infrastructure in a highly virtualized and dynamic environment.
• Experience planning for and executing large, complex projects including major hardware architecture changes, hardware refreshes, major software version upgrades and global consolidations across multiple sites.
• Experience delivering and supporting services that are used across large organizations with international, 24 x 7 support needs.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Expert-level knowledge of IBM z/OS operating system administration, performance tuning, installation, upgrade and patching.
• Strong knowledge and technical skills in IBM mainframe hardware including hardware installs and upgrades, firmware and module patching and lifecycle planning.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of IBM mainframe storage and tape management systems including storage replication technology.
• Deep knowledge in CICS administration.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of mainframe security, CICS and workload management tools and methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of JobTrac administration.
• Knowledge of database concepts in Mainframe, particularly in IDMS database administration.
• Ability to plan for and execute third-party software patching and upgrades on the mainframe to resolve technical issues and maintain supported versions of all installed software.
• Ability to provide strong and effective technical leadership to infrastructure and application resources to drive new development efforts.
• Strong knowledge of ITIL service management and disciplines to drive continuous improvement of service delivery.
• Ability to learn new technologies and apply skills to drive adoption of new capabilities and improve overall usage of the mainframe platform.
• Ability to demonstrate and deliver excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills to drive rapid problem resolution individually and within the server team.
• Strong understanding of project implementations, project structure and life cycle and best practice standards and tools.
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills to drive process improvements within the server team and across other infrastructure teams

Key Skills

Education

Any Gradute