What are the responsibilities and job description for the z/OS Mainframe Business Analyst position at Smart IT Frame LLC?
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Role: Sr. z/OS Mainframe Business Analyst
Location: Hartford, CT |St Paul, MN |Hunt Valley, MD - Hybrid
Type: Contract
Required Skills:
- z/OS network admin z/OS unix administration z/OS z/OS Linux administration z/OS Administration IBM MQ on z/OS administration IBM z/OS ConnectAPIzation - IBM DVM for z/OS
Job Description:
- Incident Management / Problem Management by performing problem analysis and resolution implementation
- Support maintenance release and major OS upgrades.
- Process client requests for system software modifications
- Review system indicators (logs, dumps, error) logs for pro-active management of system problems
- Work with operations to monitor, maintain and IPL systems to improve consistency and availability
- Monitor / Tune system performance and work with performance engineering and capacity teams
- Ensure availability and performance objectives, as required by clients and management, are maintained for operating systems and for system software components
- Implement appropriate tools and processes to automate repeated tasks
- Manage various license codes for infrastructure software.
- Capable of planning and supporting Disaster recovery exercises
- Performance tuning & Development of operational procedures
- Implement changes as needed to support other towers and day-to-day operations.
- Work with IBM and other Independent Software Vendors on a regular basis
- Provide regular management reports / analysis to senior management team regarding Incidents, Changes and requests
Technical Skillset:
- Excellent understanding of System z architecture
- Excellent experience with IBM z/OS operating system
- Experience in building Mainframe LPAR and OS Upgrades
- Knowledge Catalog management, IBM system utilities
- Installation of patches and fixes
- Installation and maintenance of ISV products, REXX, RMF, SMF
- System parameters/parmlib maintenance
- Managing incidents on z/OS related issues
- z/OS performance monitoring and reporting
- Knowledge on DFSMS, DFSMShsm, Flashcopy, ICF Catalogs, HCD
- Capable of planning and supporting Disaster recovery exercises
- Performance tuning & Development of operational procedures
- Experience with system indicators (logs, dumps, error) logs for pro-active management of system problems
- Installation and maintenance of ISV products - OPS/MVS, CA-1, CA-7, CA-11, ACF2 Suite, CA Common Services, CASpool, Easytrieve, Compuware Enterprise Common Components, Strobe, Xpediter/TSO, FileAid, Abendaid / Batch, Xpediter Code Coverage, DevEnterprise, Workbench, MXG, NetView
