Title: Z/os System Administrator
Location: Remote
Type: Long Term Contract
Rate: $Open/hr.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, configure, maintain, and support IBM z/OS operating systems and related system software.
- Perform z/OS upgrades, maintenance, system modifications, and lifecycle management.
- Provide advanced administration and troubleshooting of z/OS environments.
- Use SMP/E (System Modification Program/Extended) extensively for installation, maintenance, upgrades, PTFs, APARs, HOLDDATA processing, and management of IBM and third-party software.
- Analyze SMP/E environments, zones, CSI datasets, SYSMODs, and maintenance requirements.
- Develop and maintain REXX scripts to automate z/OS administration, monitoring, reporting, maintenance, and operational processes.
- Identify manual processes that can be improved through REXX-based automation.
- Administer and support IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF).
- Configure and maintain z/OSMF services, workflows, plugins, and system management functions.
- Utilize z/OSMF for system management, configuration, monitoring, and automation.
- Perform system problem determination, root-cause analysis, and resolution of complex z/OS issues.
- Monitor system performance, availability, capacity, and overall system health.
- Work with operations, application, storage, network, security, and database teams to resolve mainframe infrastructure issues.
- Participate in system upgrades, migrations, disaster recovery testing, and infrastructure modernization initiatives.
- Maintain system documentation, operating procedures, configuration standards, and technical runbooks.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other mainframe systems administrators.
- Participate in production support and on-call activities as required.
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