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A US-based international technology services firm at the forefront of a new revolution in Information Technology require Mainframe professionals for their Development Center at Bangalore, India.
 

Mainframe CICS Administrator

Job description Technical Skill

Description JCL Expertise
CICS support is a transaction based general-purpose data communication software system. The CICS support group provides support for CICS and its related products (both IBM and OEM), by interfacing with the software vendors to obtain and install fixes as TSO / ISPF
Team Support Responsibilities Console Commands for zOS
The CICS Support Team will:
Install / Debug CICS Transaction Server and administer
Receive CICS System Software and maintenance from the IBM National Build or from the appropriate vendor for OEM software. Mainview CICS Skills
Install corrective fixes to CICS system software and related products as required to support and maintain the environment. ACF2 Expertise
Provide performance and tuning in response to reported problems. Cobol Compiler Expertise
Create and maintain the startups for the CICS regions. SMPE Skills
Create and maintain the CICS journals and logs that are associated with the CICS regions. CEMT Skills
Interface with Operations. LRS VPS Print Expertise
Provide technical services during Disaster Recovery testing.
Customize CICS regions (define new transactions, programs, files, databases etc.) as required using the SMC process.
Provide technical recommendations related to CICS software and tools upon request.
Build new or clone additional CICS regions as required.
Install, implement, and maintain supported CICS system software and related products in appropriate CICS regions following the SMC process.
Upgrade CICS system software and related products.
Perform problem determination and resolution for CICS systems software and related program products.


Non Technical Skill
Customer Interfacing Required
Ability to create and modify Operating Procedures
Maintain Logs and Daily Outage Reports
High English Skills / High Customer Interaction

Desired skills
Assembler Skills
MacKenny Basic Knowledge
Xpediter
Eyespy
Sybase Knowledge
MTP Batch Expertise (File Access Utility)
Ability to interface with Customer & Tech Supt Teams
Ability to create and modify Operating Procedures
Maintain Logs and Daily Outage Reports
Candidate must be prepared to work within a team on a standby roster for 24x7X365 support of customer systems
Will be expected to perform some out of hours work in order to support customer changes
Non-Operations Resources are expected to work prime US Shift (M-F 8AM-5PM EST)
Perform off-hours maintenance, normally during scheduled time of Sunday, 6AM-Noon Eastern Std Time
Problem solving ability
Written and verbal English skills

Work Location Bangalore
Total Experience 2+ years
Related Experience 2+ years
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IMS System Programmer

Description The candidate for the roll of production IMS system support must posses the following skills:
Production system software support for IMS. This position is responsible for overall support/integrity of various versions of IMS subsystems on Mainframe
Ability to code JCL and execute base MVS utilities (e.g., IEBCOPY, etc.) in a JES2 environment.
Objectives Working knowledge of the IBM IMS Database Tools product set.
The objectives of a Production IMS System Support :
Working knowledge of DBRC.
Provide 24x7 support of a large IMS environment running in a DBCTL datasharing environment.
Working knowledge various versions of IMS and IMS implementation in a datasharing environment.
Maintain the integrity of the production IMS system's as it relates to the customer's application's.
Working knowledge of Neon System's Partitioned Data Facility (PDF).
Applying periodic software maintenances and corrective PTFs
Knowledge of Datavantage and File Manager/IMS a plus.
Maintain constant readiness to support disaster recovery processing * SMP/E installation and upgrades for various versions of IMS
Provide assistance to the IMS DBA staff with problem analysis/resolution as it relates to IMS connectivity/access/usage. Applying periodic software maintenances and corrective PTFs
Provide for pro-active and reactive performance monitoring/tuning using available tools. Maintain constant readiness to support disaster recovery processing
Provide assistance to the IMS DBA staff with problem analysis/resolution as it relates to IMS connectivity/access/usage.
Provide for pro-active and reactive performance monitoring/tuning using available tools.

Scope
The scope is all production IMS system's

Desired Skills
Ability to interface with Customer & Tech Supt Teams
Ability to interface with DBA group for resolution
Ability to create and modify Operating Procedures
Maintain Logs and Daily Outage Reports
Candidate must be prepared to work within a team on a standby roster for 24x7X365 support of customer systems
Will be expected to perform some out of hours work in order to support customer changes
Perform off-hours maintenance, normally during scheduled time of Sunday, 6AM-Noon Eastern Std Time
Problem solving ability
Written and verbal English skills

Work Location Bangalore
Total Experience 2+ years
Related Experience 2+ years

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MVS O/S Support

Description SMPE
The objective of MVS Technical Support services is to Maintain N or N-1 levels of all operating system code supported by MVS Technical support as well as attempting to maintain 100% availability for all systems. Extensive Knowledge of JCL
Scope Cobol Compiler expertise including OS390, VS Cobol, LE370
Manage resolution of operating system software problems TCP/IP
Coordinate with the OEM/ISV support group for the resolution of software problems
INSTALL/CONFIGURE/ADMINISTER ZOS
Maintain constant readiness to support disaster recovery processing
ServerPac experience
Maintain documentation (e.g. EPCT) of the operating system environment
Rexx experience
Perform the daily MVS system adminstration tasks. HLASM experience

Desired Skills
OS/390, Z/OS installation,updrages and customization
CA / ACF2 (RACF Security)
High Level Compuware product installs
Non-Operations Resources are expected to work prime US Shift (M-F 8AM-5PM EST)
Perform off-hours maintenance, normally during scheduled time of Sunday, 6AM-Noon Eastern Std Time
Problem solving ability
Written and verbal English skills

Work Location Bangalore
Total Experience 2+
Related Experience 2+
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MVS Storage Support

Description
The objective of MVS Storage Support services is to Maintain N or N-1 levels of all operating system code supported by MVS Technical support as well as attempting to maintain 100% availability for all systems.

Scope
The scope of MVS Storage Support services is defined by the service document .
Team Support Responsibilities
The MVS Technical Support team will:
Perform periodic SMP/E upgrades of Operating system ,apply maintenance for the ISV/OEM products related to Storage management to support the Mainframe environment
Coordinate with the other MVS support for the resolution of software problems
Maintain constant readiness to support disaster recovery processing
Maintain documentation (e.g. EPCT) of the operating system environment
Perform the daily Storage administration tasks.

Desired Skills
OS/390, Z/OS installation, upgrades and customization
ISV/OEM products related to storage management installation and upgrades
Ability to interface with Customer & Tech Supt Teams
Ability to create and modify the Backup, Recovery Procedures
Maintain Logs and Daily Outage Reports
Candidate must be prepared to work within a team on a standby roster for 24x7X365 support of customer systems
Will be expected to perform some out of hours work in order to support customer changes
Perform off-hours maintenance, normally during scheduled time of Sunday, 6AM-Noon Eastern Std Time
Problem solving ability
Written and verbal English skills

Work Location Bangalore
Total Experience 2+
Related Experience 2+

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DB2 DBA (Mainframe)

Description The candidate for the roll of production DB2 DBA must posses the following skills:
Production support DBA for DB2 for z/OS. This position is responsible for the overall support/integrity of all appliction related production DB2 objects/data/schema.
Ability to code JCL and execute base MVS utilities (e.g., IEBCOPY, etc.) in a JES2 environment.

Objectives
Ability to support internal code written in SAS.
The objectives of a Production DB2 DBA:
Working knowledge of BMC Software's DB2 utilities and administrative products.
Provide 24x7 support of a large DB2 for z/OS environment running in a datasharing environment.
Working knowledge of Omegamon for DB2.
Maintain the integrity of the production DB2 system's as it relates to the customer's application's.
Working knowledge of DB2 for z/OS v7 and DB2 implementation in a datasharing environment.
Implement changes to production application related DB2 objects/data/schema using customer approved processes/procedures/tools.
Knowledge of DB2 Connect and other remote access facilities a plus.
Provide consultation to the customer's development staff in the area of logical and physical database design.
Provide assistance to the customer's development staff with problem analysis/resolution as it relates to DB2 connectivity/access/usage.

Scope
The scope is all production DB2 for z/OS system's

Team Support Responsibilities
The Production DB2 DBA Team will:
Provide assistance on logical and physical database design as required from the customer development teams.
Provide assistance/guidance on the use of IBM and OEM utilities/tools as required from the customer development team.
Interface with Operations to schedule DB2 utility jobs.
Assist development teams with analysis of SQL and other performance related issues.
Perform backup/recovery of all production application related DB2 tablespaces / indexspaces.
Respond to performance issues on DB2 subsystems as required.
Implement new DB2 application related objects/data/schema changes and apply changes to existing application related objects/data/schema as required.
Monitor existing DB2 application related objects/data/schema to manage growth and to insure optimal access performance is maintained.
Maintain/define access privileges for DB2 application related objects/data/schema.
Insure all DB2 application related objects/data/schema comply with IBM and customer security requirements.

Technical Skills
The candidate for the roll of production DB2 DBA must posses the following skills:
Ability to code JCL and execute base MVS utilities (e.g., IEBCOPY, etc.) in a JES2 environment.
Ability to support internal code written in SAS.
Working knowledge of BMC Software's DB2 utilities and administrative products.
Working knowledge of Omegamon for DB2.
Working knowledge of DB2 for z/OS v7 and DB2 implementation in a datasharing environment.
Knowledge of DB2 Connect and other remote access facilities a plus.

Non Technical skills
Ability to interface with Customer & Tech Supt Teams
Ability to create and modify Operating Procedures
Maintain Logs and Daily Outage Reports
Candidate must be prepared to work within a team on a standby roster for 24x7X365 support of customer systems
Will be expected to perform some out of hours work in order to support customer changes
Non-Operations Resources are expected to work prime US Shift (M-F 8AM-5PM EST)
Perform off-hours maintenance, normally during scheduled time of Sunday, 6AM-Noon Eastern Std Time
Problem solving ability
Written and verbal English skills

Work Location Bangalore
Total Experience 2+
Related Experience 2+
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MQSeries Systems Programmer
Description
Websphere MQSeries Support team provides support of the MQSeries subsystem and related IBM and OEM software products.
Objectives
The objectives of MQSeries Support are:
Maintain the MQSeries systems software used within the current z/OS mainframe environment.
Maintain the MQSeries subsystems running within the z/OS mainframe environment, including the MQSeries communication facilities that communicate to other products.
Scope
The scope includes MQSeries Systems Programming support responsibilities for all related MQSeries systems software and the MQSeries subsystems running in the z/OS environment.
The MQSeries Systems Support Team will:
Install MQSeries and related systems software (IBM & OEM) running in the z/OS environment.
Upgrade MQSeries and related systems software in the z/OS environment.
Customize and Tune the MQSeries subsystem environment
Provide corrective fixes to MQSeries and related products.
Interface with automations on MQSeries startup/shutdown.
Create and maintain the MQSeries logs with each MQSeries subsystem.
Interface with Operations.
Build and configure new MQSeries subsystem environments.
Provide technical recommendations related to MQSeries software and tools upon request. Create and support backup and recovery processes for the MQSeries subsystem en Respond to system related performance issues of MQseries subsystems as required.


Non Technical Skills
Lotus Word Pro or MS Word
Lotus 123 or MS Excel
Technical Writing Skills (ability to write and support Team Documentation and operating procedures )
Email communications (via Lotus Notes)
Personal communications skills (English)
Problem & Change Management

Desired Skills
Candidate must be prepared to work within a team on a standby roster for 24x7X365 support of customer systems
Must be able to support and implement changes outside normal hours of operation
Non-Operations Resources are expected to work prime US Shift (M-F 8AM-5PM EST)
Perform off-hours maintenance, normally during scheduled time of Sunday, 6AM-Noon Eastern Std Time

Work Location Bangalore
Total Experience 2+
Related Experience 2+
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ISV Product support / Program Products

Description
The objective of MVS Technical Support services is to Maintain N or N-1 levels of all operating system code in addition to OEM/ISV products supported by MVS Technical support as well as attempting to maintain 100% availability for all systems.

Scope
The scope of MVS Technical Support services is defined by the service document .
Team Support Responsibilities
The MVS Technical Support team will:
Perform periodic SMP/E upgrades of OEM/ISV products, apply maintenance to support software environment
Manage resolution of software problems with supported OEM/ISV products
Maintain constant readiness to support disaster recovery processing
Maintain documentation (e.g. EPCT) of the operating system environment
Maintain process and procedure documentation related to MVS Technical Support Services
Provide periodic communication to application programmers on system upgrades and changes
Support locally developed assembler utilities used by application programmers
Support locally developed REXX utilities used for automation and operation support

Desired Skills
TMON/MVS - [Allen Systems Group] (System Monitoring/PD/Diagnostics)
Strobe - [Compuware] (Application performance/diagnostics)
Control M/Tape - [BMC ] (Tape Management)
Control M - [BMC ] (Job Scheduler)
Control M/Restart -[BMC ] (Job Recovery/Restart)
SAS - [SAS] (Application support and SMF data processing]
High Level Compuware product installs
HSC - [STK] (STK Silo support)
VTCS - [STK] (STK Virtual Tape support)
Experience with GNU unix utilities and perl
Ability to interface with Customer & Tech Supt Teams
Ability to create and modify Operating Procedures
Maintain Logs and Daily Outage Reports
Candidate must be prepared to work within a team on a standby roster for 24x7X365 support of customer systems
Will be expected to perform some out of hours work in order to support customer changes
Non-Operations Resources are expected to work prime US Shift (M-F 8AM-5PM EST)
Perform off-hours maintenance, normally during scheduled time of Sunday, 6AM-Noon Eastern Std Time
Problem solving ability
Written and verbal English skills

Work Location Bangalore
Total Experience 2+
Related Experience 2+

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