Senior Mainframe Systems Programmer - Automation

Job Description 'z/OS Automation Engineer'

Your role

Do you like to work and explore multiple, complex IT technologies? Are you a customer-focused team player, who would like to become part of a large global organization?

For our Mainframe Shared Services team we are looking for a z/OS Automation Engineer .

In this position you will be responsible for

design, build, test and maintain Automation, Monitoring and System Availability solutions in a highly automated z/OS Mainframe environment

Plan and execute DR drills ( failover and failback)

Your team

You will be working in the Automation Engineering team in Pune/India and you will interact with other Mainframe Engineering teams and the related Support teams in Basel/Zurich and Weehawken.

We are a team of technical specialists who are responsible for the planning, development, maintenance as well as problem management in the area of z/OS Automation and Disaster solutions (Business Continuity Management). We analyze and realize automation solution in close co-operation with the appropriate software owners and clients.

In addition we providing 24x7 support by On-call service for applications which run on the IBM z/OS platform covering multiple regions in different time zones. We provide services based on the Service Level Agreement (SLA) and ensure the System availability entities for all production-, test- and development environments.

Your experience and skills

You have

Knowledge of z/OS Mainframes and IBM or 3 rd party Software, in particular SA390 and/or BMC Mainview software products would be helpful

Experience in IBM Parallel Sysplex technology SA390/GDPS/Hyperswap/PPRC

Experience in problem analyzing and software development writing REXX scripts for solution

Experience in AI software and its implementation with willingness to use it for z/OS Mainframe environment (for AI Automation Eng) Example : BMC AMI Ops

MS office suite experience

Automation Infrastructure Started Tasks (IBM GDPS, Mainview)

Automation Infrastructure Interfaces(AutoOperator, GDPS (Netview), Netcool/BigPanda)

BMC Products Overview (BMC Product List, BBI2 versus BB3 Arch )

BMC Product Details

BMC Product Interfaces(IMFEXEC, AOEXEC, TOMEXEC)

System Start, Image Isolation and System Shutdown

TOM backup/restore

AutoOperator Introduction

ALM Reports, Executing

REXX 80%

OPSmvs , BMC Mainview

Concepts - message trapping.

You are

Assertive

Flair for organizational and project management

Good communicator and coordinator

Fluent in English and eager to work in a Global Team

A committed and visionary team player who is able to collaborate and prioritize across a complex environment