Lead Mainframe Services Expert

4 days ago


Arlington, Virginia, United States Empower AI Inc. Full time
About the Role

Empower AI Inc. is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Mainframe Services SME to join our team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for providing support to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Joint Service Provider (JSP) on the Platform Services contract.

Key Responsibilities
  • Mainframe Service Management: Provide mainframe service management for a highly virtualized, secure infrastructure for business applications, ensuring high availability, maximum reliability, disaster recovery (DR), and performance and capacity optimization.
  • Operating System Support: Provide support for a broad scope of operating systems for Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) level applications for mainframe-hosted applications.
  • Technical Expertise: Provide technical expertise in the architecture, deployment, and sustainment of the mainframe architecture and various applications supported on the infrastructure.
  • Programming Support: Provide programming support to JSP and their customers, working in conjunction with Government Mainframe staff.
  • Mainframe Environment Support: Support the JSP mainframe environments that currently exist on the Unclassified networks at the source and at the DR site.
  • Mainframe Access Management: Provide Mainframe access management support.
Qualifications
  • Education: Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, computer information systems, telecommunications, or management information systems.
  • Experience: 2 - 7 recent years of documented experience relevant to this key position.
  • Certifications: Information Assurance (IA) Certification: DoDI 8570 IAT II certification. Computing Environment (CE) Certification: Recent and relevant technical certification.
  • Security Clearance: Secret security clearance.
  • Technical Skills: Demonstrated direct experience with a variety of z/VM and z/OS hardware and software within the environment as described within this PWS. Experience in generation and maintenance of system engineering and technical architecture documentation.
  • Leadership Skills: Experience in generating and maintaining requirements, testing and evaluating possible future technical architectures, analyzing and resolving complex system issues, leading and/or participating in architecture reviews and providing technical guidance based upon expertise.
  • Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of large, complex IT mainframe systems. Experience and technical capabilities in z/OS environments running Job Entry Subsystem 2 (JES2), System Display and Search Facility (SDSF), Time Sharing Option (TSO) TSO/Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF), Access Control Facility (ACF2), Customer Information Control System (CICS), and DB2 in a multiple CPU environment.
  • Systems Programming: Systems programming experience in IBM z/VM. System administration experience in z/Linux operating systems such as RedHat and SuSe in IBM z/VM hypervisor.
  • Hardware Knowledge: Knowledge working with current IBM mainframe hardware platforms, such as z9, z10, z196 and zBC12.
  • DISA STIG Processes: Working knowledge of DISA STIG processes.
  • Storage Systems: Expert knowledge and experience with count-key DASD storage systems, specifically EMC VMAX systems to include Business Continuance Volume (BCV), Timefinder, and Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) functions.
  • Tape Libraries: Expert knowledge and experience with robotic tape libraries including SL-8500, SL-3000, StorageTek (STK)/Sun/Oracle Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) and T10k tape drives.
  • TSO/ISPF: Thorough knowledge of TSO/ISPF, System Modification Program/Extended (SMP/E), IBM and IBM-related utility programs [i.e. IDCAMS, IEBCOPY, Fast Dump Restore (FDR), Data Facility Data Set Services (DFDSS), z/OS file structures, Integrated Catalog Facility (ICF) Catalogs, Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) and zFS file systems.
  • Communication Server: Experience with configuration and management of IBMs Communication Server IP and its subcomponents (TN3270, FTP, SYSLOGD, Policy Agent, InfoPrint Server, SMTP, SNMP, OMPROUTE, etc).
  • Network Monitoring: Knowledge and experience with z/OS network monitoring software such as NETVIEW, Williams Data Systems IMPLEX, Exigence, and FTP Alert.
  • VTAM: Experience with configuration and management of communications server VTAM and its subcomponent features (Enterprise Extender and Advanced Peer to Peer Network (APPN).
  • Mainframe Open Systems Adapters: Expert knowledge of mainframe open systems adapters in z/OS and z/VM environments.
About Empower AI Inc.

Empower AI Inc. is a company that provides AI solutions for government agencies. We are committed to providing equal opportunity in recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting individuals in all job categories without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected class or category as may be defined by federal, state, or local laws or regulations.



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