Mainframe Consultant

Description

Mainframe Consultant

Hybrid 3 day onsite 2 day remote

Chandler, AZ

$35/hour

18 Month W2 Contract

Must haves:

• 5+ years of enterprise experience
• JES2 commands
• MVS commands
• IPL process flows
• System automation - SA/ 390 - automates the manual JES2 and IPL commands
• Disaster recovery

Nice to haves:

• strong soft skills
• triage experience - troubleshooting
• 1st level support team exp
• db2 (database 2)- relational database management system
• Being able to escalate issues to respective teams
• knowledge automating the storage process

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Position Summary:

• This role provides the first level response for all mainframe infrastructure issues.
• This role will assist in the planning, development, and implementation of infrastructure solutions involving cross-functional technical experts to meet specific deployment requirements aligned with available playbooks and technical blueprints.
• This individual is viewed as a technology domain subject matter expert (SME); able to provide and communicate technology solutions across differing audiences including technical, managerial, and/or vendors.
• This role will participate in multiple projects and activities related to special initiatives or operations.
• This individual will lead the resolution process for problems where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of various factors.
• In addition, this individual will exercise judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criterion for obtaining results.
• Additionally this role supports change activities helping to ensure mainframe infrastructure changes are implemented successfully within the scheduled change window.
• This role requires a strong working knowledge of mainframe infrastructure, strong system IPL skills and the software running on it. The ability to identify problems and escalate appropriately to ensure the health of this critical technology.

Skillset:

• Candidate must have 5 or more years of console operations work experience in a large scale multi-platform data center.
• 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.
• Technical experiences include operator level knowledge of JES2 and MVS commands sets and console operations.
• The ability to navigate and provide operator level control over CICS.
• Knowledge of standard mainframe tools such as: MAINVIEW, Omegamon, Tivoli, SA/Zos, CAO, OPS/MVS, TMON, NETVIEW, TBSM, and HMC
• A working knowledge of VTAM/SNA, IPL and POR procedures is required.
• Experience with ticketing tools such as BMC Remedy or Service Now.