Overnight Mainframe/DB2 Support Engineer

1 week ago

Reston, United States ALTA IT Services, LLC Full time

Job Title: Overnight Mainframe/DB2 Support Engineer

Role Type: Contract to hire

Location: 100% Remote – candidates should be located in MD, VA, DC, West Virginia, Delaware, NJ or Pennsylvania.


Candidates must be flexible within the 6 pm – 6 am OVERNIGHT shift time range and also be flexible to work either Sunday – Thurs or Tuesday – Saturday


W2 only / not available for C2C


Qualifications

Experience: 5 + years’ experience in Mainframe DB2 Support.

Should have skills in DB2, CICS, JCL, z/OS


Education Level: Bachelor's Degree preferred

Education Details: Information Technology or Computer Science

In Lieu of Education

In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.


PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES: Under the direction of the Manager/Supervisor of Data Center Operations, responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

1. Day to Day Functions

• Daily monitoring of IT infrastructure and applications, as well as managing and maintaining the supporting technologies to ensure peak efficiency and reliability.

• Serve as backup for Shift Lead for a DCO monitoring shift and be responsible for completing the Shift Summary sheet for review and approval by oncoming shift DCO Lead.

• Provide real-time monitoring for both Mainframe and Distributed systems in order to proactively detect and prevent service disruption.

• Responsible to diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems through resolution.

• Ensure proper procedures are followed to introduce changes and fixes into the operating environment and production libraries in order to ensure the lowest possible error rate.

• Provide timely notification of Level 2 system and application support teams as necessary. Independently works with system monitoring and diagnostic tools to ensure optimal performance of operating systems.

• Initiate and coordinate HealthCheck calls for problem identification and resolution.


2. Scheduling Tasks

• Create or alter new and existing jobs and job schedules on the mainframe, Windows, and UNIX environments using the Scheduling package(s).

• Perform job restarts with needed overrides and correct JCL syntax.

• Monitor the Scheduler queues to ensure job completion and/or error corrections have been performed.

• Update Scheduler Base Calendars to reflect current years processing and Holiday schedule.

• Build AGENT capabilities to communicate scheduling requirements across platforms.

• Contributes to the implementation of new technology and tools to increase productivity and performance with job scheduling.

• Support upgrades and new releases to applications, platforms, and the scheduling product(s).


3. Procedural

• Develops, updates, and maintains operations systems manuals, documentations, policies, inventories, written procedures relative to installing, configuration, maintaining, and using Operating Systems, subsystems software, scheduling, and information ensuring compliance with Corporate security and audit regulations.

• Contributes to the establishment of SLAs and Metrics, monitoring performance against requirements to ensure performance targets are met.

• Provide timely information for audit requests for Data Center Operations.

• Follow IT Operations guidelines for audit reply review and approval.


4. Technology Consulting

• Provide technical assistance to all customers; IT Operations, Service Desk, and Application Programming areas to leverage technology and resolve issues/problems.

• Provides 365x24x7 on call support for assigned products and services.

• Uses available resources to research, resolve and recommend solutions for the complex and critical systems.

• Collects and trends data and metrics options for DCO reporting.

• Assists with daily system administration tasks for EDCS products and services to ensure that are functioning properly.

• Leads maintenance and upgrade efforts for EDCS products and services.

• Works with vendor technical support centers when troubleshooting product based issues.

• Work along with other IT engineers on day-to-day tasks and projects.

• Participates in Data Center Operations efforts for disaster recovery/business resumption initiatives and during Disaster Recovery Exercises.

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