Mainframe Systems Programmer

<p class="MsoNormal">The Systems Programmer will be part of a team that manages and supports IBM Systems Z hardware and software; provides primary support for mainframe related issues; manages lifecycle of IBM z/OS environment, for third party software, and provides support for business and technology units.<br></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Responsibilities</b></p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Administer in a large-scale z/OS mainframe environment</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Apply and support IBM software maintenance </li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Apply and support software maintenance of 3rd party software packages, primarily Broadcom </li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Participate in after-hours support rotation</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">CICS and MQ Systems Programming support</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Disaster Recover/Business Continuity</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Maintain mainframe architecture and strategies to ensure performance, availability, integrity of our systems</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Extrapolate performance numbers from SMF data</li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Required Experience</b></p> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4">A minimum of eight years of experience as a Systems Programmer in IBM Mainframe technologies</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4">Must have experience with CICS, MQ, SMP/E and general IBM mainframe systems programming</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4">Eight years of experience maintaining 3rd party software packages on IBM mainframes including Broadcom-CA.</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4">Deep experience in providing production IBM mainframe support is required. </li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4">Demonstrate a detailed knowledge mainframe systems programming, as well as experience in the installation/maintenance of IBM and 3rd party software packages, performance management and resource tuning.</li></ul><p class="sceditor-nlf"><br></p.