Mainframe Systems Programmer – CICS/MQ – Pittsburgh, PA

Military Spouse Corporate Career Network•Pittsburgh, PA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

This position is a member of the Mainframe Systems Support team and will primarily be accountable for ensuring a highly available mainframe system. This results-oriented job requires a solid understanding of mainframe sub-subsystems in a large scale parallel sysplex IBM zEnterprise environment.

Requirements

3 years of experience in one or many of the following tasks: analyzing, designing, coding, testing and implementing technical solutions, as well as providing general production support, meeting defined scope, target dates and budgets with minimal or no defects
3 years of technical problem solving, solution implementation, team/project collaboration experience
3 years of basic computer science concepts and principles, common operating systems, development languages/scripting
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or relevant experience and/or education as determined by the company in lieu of bachelor's degree.

Nice To Haves

Experience in mainframe systems programmer with a focus on one or more of the following: z/OS concepts and utilities RACF TSO Plex Configurations JES2 SMP/e JCL Assembler REXX programming
Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

Install, upgrade, and manage CICS/MQ environments in all test and production LPARs
Monitor the health of the CICS/MQ environments and help troubleshoot issues to determine root cause
Support the IBM Z Mainframe z/OS environment using SMP/E, ISPF/SDSF. USS, JES2, JCL, and IBM/third-party utilities
Provide stable and secure mainframe sub-system support
Maintain the sysplexed environment for CICS/MQ
Participate in disaster recovery exercises
Install and maintain third party software products related to CICS/MQ
Build alerting and automation scripts
Use performance reports/metrics to identify process/availability improvement opportunities
Research and assess new technology for potential deployment
Conduct troubleshooting and problem analysis
Conduct change inspections; determine associated risks and readiness for implementation
Available to work a flexible work schedule that would include infrastructure releases and on-call rotation