z/OS System Programming Engineer

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Spar Information Systems
ABCanada (Remote)
  • Environmental
  • Weekends
  • Applications have closed

Job Description:

Responsible for the design and maintenance of the operating environment that provides the technology, stability, and power to meet the Firm’s z-platform computing requirements.

Skills Required:

  • Expert in zOS internals
  • Self-motivated/able to work autonomously
  • Strong Catalog management Knowledge and experience
  • Excellent trouble shooting skills
  • Able to work in a stressed situation like production system outage
  • Strong USS/OMVS skills
  • Experience with z/OS and ISV software installations
  • Excellent Testing skills (design tests to validate software functionality, robustness, performance)
  • HCD/Hardware knowledge
  • REXX experience
  • Weekend support and on-call rotation
  • zOSMF, rest APIs, Kafka, LinuxOne, ansibles, python and other new zos technologies is a plus
  • Assembler skills for usermods maintenance and dump reading are desirable but not mandatory

Attributes:

  • Self-motivated individual and a team player
  • Outstanding researcher/investigator with outside the box line of thought
  • Good verbal and written English communications skills
  • At least 10 years of relevant experience
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