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Senior z/OS Systems Administrator | Long Term Contract | Remote(EST/CST)
Two95 International Inc.
Senior z/OS Systems Administrator | Long Term Contract | Remote(EST/CST)
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Administer and support IBM z/OS environments, including installations, upgrades, maintenance, lifecycle management, and complex troubleshooting. Use SMP/E for software maintenance, PTFs, APARs, and HOLDDATA processing. Develop REXX automation and administer z/OSMF services and workflows. Monitor performance, availability, capacity, and system health; support upgrades, migrations, disaster recovery testing, production operations, and on-call activities. Collaborate across infrastructure teams, maintain technical documentation, and mentor other mainframe administrators.
Title: Z/os System Administrator
Location: Remote
Type: Long Term Contract
Rate: $Open/hr.
Requirements
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.
Benefits
If Interested please send your updated resume to:[email protected]and include your rate/Salary requirement along with your contact details with a suitable time when we can reach you. If you know of anyone in your sphere of contacts, who would be a perfect match for this job then, we would appreciate if you can forward this posting to them with a copy to us.
We look forward to hearing from you at the earliest
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