Job Administration/Production Control Technician
About The Position
The Financial Information Services Agency (FISA) is hiring a Job Administration/Production Control Technician to monitor job flows controlled by the CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries) scheduling system. Jobs run on a z/OS mainframe, UNIX, or PeopleSoft server. The technician responds to job failures by identifying the general cause and contacting the appropriate on-call staff member for remediation. The role also occasionally involves migrating software to production or test environments, documenting problems, setting up job-flow dependencies, and executing and troubleshooting test flows. The position is located at 5 Manhattan West in New York City, near Madison Square Garden and Hudson Yards. It follows a rotating schedule of three consecutive days per week, from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., including weekends and holidays. The schedule rotates between Monday through Wednesday and Thursday through Saturday in four-week periods.
Requirements
- Three to five years of related scheduling experience with a Windows-based scheduling system.
- Five years of experience escalating and documenting critical job failures and schedule problems.
- Five years of hands-on experience executing and performing preliminary troubleshooting activities involving schedulers, batch processes, and cycle flows.
- Meet one of the stated education and experience alternatives: a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field plus four years of satisfactory full-time related experience; a bachelor's degree plus eight years of satisfactory full-time related experience; or equivalent education and/or experience.
Nice To Haves
- Extensive experience in Production Control with a mainframe or mid-range computer.
- Familiarity with establishing job dependencies.
- Experience troubleshooting JCL errors, using GDGs, and using utilities such as File-AID and IDCAMS.
- Knowledge of CA Workload Automation DE or a similar enterprise scheduling package.
- Knowledge of z/OS JCL and TSO/ISPF.
- Experience with mainframe compile, link, and bind procedures.
- Familiarity with file transfer protocols such as FTPS and/or Connect:Direct.
- Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills.
- Strong understanding of standard SDLC methodologies.
- Knowledge of IMS and D82.
- Knowledge of UNIX.
- Knowledge of PUTTY and WinSCP.
- Familiarity with Rational Tools, including ClearQuest and ClearCase.
- Familiarity with MS Word and Excel.
- Knowledge of PeopleSoft People Tools, including Process Monitor.
Responsibilities
- Monitor job flows controlled by the CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries) scheduling system.
- Respond to job failures by determining the general cause and contacting the appropriate on-call staff member for remediation.
- Occasionally migrate software to production and/or test environments.
- Document problems.
- Set up job-flow dependencies.
- Execute and troubleshoot test flows.
- Perform preliminary troubleshooting involving the scheduler, batch processes, and cycle flows.
Benefits
- Health insurance.
- Pension plan.
- Deferred Compensation Plan with 457, 401K, and Roth IRA options.
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit program.
- Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts programs.
- Prescription drug coverage.
- Dental benefits.
- Vision care benefits.
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Job Type
Part-time
