Immediate need for a Network Engineer Associate for a position in the Banking and Financial Industry. This is a 12+ Months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Dallas, VA. Please review the job description below: Job ID: 18-08701 Key Responsibilities: • 24/7 support of JobTrac & AutoSys Monitoring and excecution (automated job scheduling tools JobTrac for the mainframe and AutoSys for the distributed platforms) they set up jobs to run automatically for any failed jobs. • Mainframe monitoring. • Ad-hoc approvers list referencing for Ad-hoc request. • Providing support for production incidents and following process and procedures to resolve incidents. • Application, Network & Infrastructure monitoring. Requires some SME support around production monitoring. The OC performs level one technical support following a documented process to review the incident and attempt to resolve if possible. If no, incident is escalated to level two. • DCU (data correction) execution. • Mainframe tape functions and issue handling, per detailed combination of process and guidelines; i.e. “runbook”. • 24/7 support of Start/Stop production applications through AutoSys (for ad hoc requests including manual intervention if necessary.) • Termination of hung production processes. • Command line start/stop, log files cleaning, and special command line requests including file changes, file copy, file moving, and smoke testing production applications. Escalation to level two as needed. • Incident Management reporting, daily activities reporting (includes managing and sending out reports), DCU turnover reporting for all executed and pending DCU's, Mainframe tape management reporting, and QA/QC reporting. Reports are created on incident failures and scheduled activities, analysis of events and recording of events during the shift. Regular/recurring reports are passed along without analysis. • Requires some network knowledge in network protocols such as TCP/IP and DNS, DHCP. • Quickly restore service during system outages, provide troubleshooting support with team members, assist with proactive problem prevention, and escalate technical details to technical lead and/or to vendor support. • Write technical documentation, operational procedures, systems documentation and Incident and problem communications and reporting. Key Requirements and Technology Experience: • Minimum 1 year ticketing system experience. • Basic knowledge of software and hardware. • Networks - Enterprise monitoring via CA Spectrum, Client Ovenview, and or Netcool. • ServiceNow Ticketing Application. • Wintel Administration • Linux Platform • Knowledge of Mainframe Platform and Job Scheduling packages: Autosys, CA7, JOBTRAC, Maestro, or Control-M for job execution/monitoring. Responsible for first level call resolution for Distributed and Mainframe systems. • Microsoft Suite Tools • Cloud Technology • Disaster Recovery Support • Certifications: ITIL, A+ and Network + • Working knowledge of Database systems • Working knowledge of Middleware systems • UNIX scripting Our client is a leading Banking and Financial Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. Qualified candidates should apply online for immediate consideration.