What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mainframe Administrator position at United Software Group Inc?
Senior Mainframe Platform support Engineers
Location : Addison, TX (hybrid - 3 days / week)
Contract
Job Requirements
Mainframe Platform Engineers who are involved platform activities involved in Admin, Configuration & upgrades.
POSITION OVERVIEW Experienced Mainframe System Programmer to work with a major Insurance client. The role involves maintaining and supporting CICS environments, z / OS operating system and various ISV products, mainly from IBM and Broadcom. The role requires technical, domain level and specialist skills to ensure that all the engineering services are operated, maintained and constantly upgraded as technology advances. There can be multiple functions within the job involving multiple products and technologies. Including but not limited to programming, support to maintain essential environmental conditions & analysis – creating functional / technical design solutions. The job holder may specialize in a single or combination of those functions / technologies.
POSITION GENERAL DUTIES AND TASKS :
Responsibilities
- Plays a key role as an individual contributor in engineering and implementing various aspects of a complex IBM Mainframe environment.
- Maintains and configures CICS environments and CICS web services.
- Ensures availability of CICS regions and troubleshooting issues.
- Maintains, supports and troubleshoots the z / OS operating system and various ISV products from vendors; IBM, Broadcom and others.
- Participates in Mainframe Software / Hardware / Operating System Upgrades,
o Plan upgrades and develop schedules.
o Coordinate and facilitate software installation and validation with application teams and delivery partners.
o Review new features and provide necessary documentation and procedures to Application development teams
o Work with vendors to resolve any issues.
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