Mainframe Systems Engineer III

About the role

The Mainframe Systems Engineer III candidate must have experience in one or more of the following disciplines: z/OS installation and customization, storage management, hardware configuration, networking, performance management and capacity planning, or ISV installation and customization in a Parallel Sysplex environment. The candidate must be able to complete work on time in an ever-changing and complex environment and take direction from leaders and managers. Mentoring is required in this role so mentoring skills and experience are desired.

Responsibilities

• Completes work on time in an ever-changing and complex environment
• Takes direction from leaders and managers
• Mentors team members
• Facilitates deployment of tools/services by leading others in solution development, maintenance of templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation
• Ensures application and business requirements are translated into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks to guide development and integration of technology solutions
• Supports High available, secure connectivity solutions and compatibility between systems
• Writes and maintains system documentation
• Coordinates with application programmers and users to determine symptoms and ensure accurate problem resolution

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in mainframe engineering
• 5-10 years of solid experience in z/OS engineering
• Mainview installation, maintenance and customization
• z/OS and zSeries hardware networking configuration
• Performance and capacity reporting with zPCA and/or SAS/MXG and/or Intellimagic
• zOSMF product installation and deployment
• Experience with TCP/IP configuration and troubleshooting
• Experience with storage management
• Performance management with WLM
• Reporting and planning with zPCA and/or SAS/MXG
• Independent Software Vendor installation and maintenance
• z/OS installation, customization and maintenance
• Coupling Facility updates
• ChangeMan Administration
• Managing multiple tasks and delivering on committed target dates
• Knowledge of banking industry business processes (a plus)
• Good written and oral communication skills (required)