Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TWO95 International, Inc is seeking a Senior z/OS Systems Administrator for a long-term contract role. The position is responsible for administering, maintaining, upgrading, troubleshooting, and automating IBM z/OS environments, including SMP/E and z/OSMF, while supporting system performance, infrastructure modernization, documentation, and production operations.
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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