Sr. z/VM and zLinux Systems Programmer

Primary Skills :VMWARE, Linux

Job Description:

Design, engineer, and manage the organization's z/VM and zLinux ]infrastructure and operational platforms

Design, implement and enable IaaS and PaaS services for the Optum business community

Must understand functional and non-functional requirements to ensure they can be achieved through system design and engineering to meet the needs of the customers

Work closely with business and technology stakeholders to:

Develop roadmaps for their respective technology portfolios

Resolve cross-system and domain dependencies

Ensure effective integration among the services offered to the end customer

Ensure efficient usage of infrastructure and operational platforms

Monitor technological advancements and industry trends to influence company standards and ensure that solutions are continuously improved and maintained through product management practices, including recommendations to invest in a solution or retirement of redundant or out-of-date systems

Understand the interactions between systems, the applications and services hosted, and evaluate the impact of changes and additions

Perform analysis on existing systems to ensure performance and reliability, enhance scalability, meet security requirements, and interoperable and maintainable technology portfolio

Required skills:

Manage the z/VM and zLinux infrastructure/operational platforms to ensure optimal performance and availability

Respond to and resolve infrastructure incidents

Design and build solutions to support business systems

Analyze, Design, Build, and implement the migration from the z/VM and zLinux platform to the LinuxOne KVM platform

Serve as a recognized expert in the following areas - Provide guidance, troubleshooting and answers complex questions related to these areas:

Scope, Size & Complexity of work along with the identification of “blast radius/ impact”

Infrastructure Platform Management:

Apply understanding of infrastructure/operational platform to support/optimize business applications/systems

Ensure platform performance/availability

Write, debug and test automation code

Engineer foundational components for IaaS & PaaS

Design and engineer infrastructure systems in support of the business systems

Serve as a recognized expert in the following areas

Engineering Principles

Design, build, test and adapt solutions that optimize environment and meet evolving needs of customers and business, leveraging and anticipating modern technologies

Support continuous integration; continuous delivery environment (CICD)

Focus on customer and desired business outcomes in the design and build of solutions

Consider security, scalability, reliability & feasibility in solution design

Consider integrations and impacts on other systems in deployment of solutions

Continually seek out opportunities to automate solutions

Write, debug, test and deploy code to create working solution

Technology Acumen:

Seek out and apply the standards, concepts & functionality of all technology/systems between technologies

Possess breadth of knowledge spanning all bodies of technologies, e.g., databases, middleware, OS, etc.

Consider interdependencies of various technologies in analyses and solutions

Research industry trends and impact on function/business

Analytical

Interpret meaning through the identification and study of patterns

Gather facts/data to inform decision making

Identify cause and effect relationships between known variables

Identify applicable information to inform analysis

Conduct thorough examination of relevant data

Identify and evaluate varying perspectives

Interpret information and draw conclusions

Troubleshooting 

Apply a systematic approach to confirm, identify and resolve system issues

Confirm presenting issue

Apply problem-solving techniques to isolate root-cause

Identify and verify workable solution

Quality Management

Understand and incorporates quality principles to ensure optimal performance, impact and experience

Follow quality control guidelines & practices

Balance business impact, user experience and performance in development of system designs and solutions

Continually seek opportunities to improve solutions, processes and performance