Senior System Software Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Principle System Software Engineer

Work Mode: Remote

Location: US (East Coast)

Employment Mode: Contract (6months)

Responsibilities:

• Managing and contributing to the installation and maintenance of TIBCO Mainframe z/OS, z/Linux and the related systems
• Understand system Z software’s best implementation practices, design strategy and planning
• Work with management and other infra teams to customize and tune key z/OS subsystems (CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ) to improve system performance and ensure service-level agreement (SLA) adherence for mission-critical applications. Understand the requirements and features, and to translate them into development tasks and quality assurance tests
• Work independently, a self-starter that requires minimum supervision
• Debug system failures and help identify the root cause of failures
• Create and run system wide tests for scenarios that are difficult to automate
• Developing/maintaining execution plans and Testing Specifications
• Work with local and remote teams, communicate status, schedules effectively clearly.
• Escalate issues in time and able to follow up for their status

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 15 years of experience on z/OS, zLinux and z/VM managing the end-to-end lifecycle for z/OS and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) products, including installation, upgrades, and maintenance using SMP/E, for a multi-LPAR Sysplex environment
• Minimum BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent skill set
• SMPE - Configure SMPE, Order Software, Install Software
• zOSMF - Install software release upgrades using dialogs, Build software maintenance workflows
• IBM Support/ShopZ – Order software, Create IBM problem ticket, Research IBM software issues
• DASD - Install new disk systems, configure, manage, perform storage management tasks; Full knowledge of NFS in IBM z/OS, Power systems, all Linux variants
• A good understanding of Linux and AIX systems administration
• Security - RACF - Maintain existing software security; Detailed knowledge of SSL/TLS, IBM Policy Agent and IBM GSK
• YSPLEX - Configure Coupling Facility policies
• HMC - Configure and maintain security, server, Ops (IPL Profiles) and hardware definitions via Hardware Configuration Definition (HCD), coordinating with teams to support upgrades and installations of new IBM Z hardware. HCD – Configure server/device GENs
• Networks - Extensive knowledge of IBM z/Systems networks and Cisco network switches; Setup, configure and maintain SAN equipment, IBM and Broadcom/Brocade
• A good understanding of the IBM Z sub-system CICS
• Debug Tools – Provided expert-level problem determination and resolution for system and application issues, utilizing diagnostic tools such as IPCS, SLIP, EREP, and GTF to perform root cause analysis. IPCS – Analyze svc dump diagnostic data
• Programming - Basic Assembler - Analyze svc dumps, logrec diagnostic data; Rexx - Develop, maintain system exits, utilities

Preferred qualifications:

• Extensive experience in operating and customizing IBM zPDT environments
• Experience with installing and configuring IBM Power equipment and systems
• Manage IBM mainframe hardware, replacements
• Deep knowledge of IBM storage devices for IBM Mainframe and open systems