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FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF OMAHA Senior Mainframe z/OS Engineer ( Remote/ Work from Home) in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah
ABOUT FNTS
As a nationally recognized Cloud Service Provider, FNTS has a proven history guiding our customers through their cloud journey. FNTS has a passion for all things multi-cloud and provides flexible cloud solutions, with a continued focus on orchestrating agility, transparency and IT optimization for our customers, all while keeping cost containment top-of-mind. With an elevated security posture consisting of layered security solutions, FNTS specializes in partnering with customers in highly regulated and compliance-driven industries.
Our culture and our employees are the heart of our story - and we're committed to their success! Please see below the details of this career opportunity and how it fits into our organization's success.
Summary of the Job:
The Mainframe Senior Engineer Position is part of a managed services engineering team. The Mainframe Senior Engineer is responsible for maintaining customer environments and solving technical problems in an efficient manner. In addition to maintaining the existing Mainframe systems, you will help plan and migrate customer systems via tape save/restore or software replication, expand our existing customer's environments, ensure proper handling of system backups and react in a break/fix capacity to escalate technical issues that compromise system operability and functionality. Candidates for this position must show previous Mainframe administrative, operator and support experience in similar environments with emphasis on supporting technology such as z Series systems, Virtual Tape environments, Fiber switched, and common networking knowledge related to Mainframe connectivity.
About This Role:
Perform reporting functions as required or requested by customer
Support cases and incidents / problems not solvable by Ops
Installation, maintenance and configuration of ISV products
Assist with hardware configuration and upgrades
Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team migrating customer environments with minimal impact
Write and maintain system documentation
Work with customers to accomplish their migration to FNTS or remote management setup.
Using team roadmap, implement technologies to achieve it, e.g. develop new offerings through taking advantage of new hardware capabilities or additional OS capabilities such as Sysplexes
Install new software (OS and major subsystem) releases while working with customer on timing/testing/implementation.
Maintain golden/sandbox systems for templates
Participate in technical infrastructure projects as the Mainframe SME
Occasional after hours and weekend support
The Ideal Candidate for This Role:
z/OS Concepts (JES2, SDSF, TSO, RACF, HCD/IODF, SMP/E)
Communication Concepts (VTAM, TCP/IP)
Storage Management (SMS, HSM, DFDSS, VSAM, IDCAMS, ICF Catalogs)
z/OS Subsystems (JES2, WLM, OMVS/USS, SMF/RMF, RACF, ASM, GRS)
Major Subsystems (CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ Series)
Self-motivated and able to work independently
Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentations)
Mainframe Systems Engineer (10+ years experience)
Knowledge of z systems hardware
Experience configuring LPARs using the Hardware Management Console
Experience with storage management in JBOD, RAID, and SAN environments and the performance differences with each
Experience defining and troubleshooting Printer configurations
Experience configuring TCP/IP and associated servers in an IPV4 environment (IPv6 desired)
Familiarity with Physical and Virtual tape library configuration and implementation
OS Upgrades, PTF Deployment and... For full info follow application link.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.