What are the responsibilities and job description for the MAINFRAME SYSTEM ENGINEER III | COLUMBUS, OH (ONSITE) position at Columbus Technology Solutions?
JOB TITLE: MAINFRAME SYSTEM ENGINEER III
JOB DURATION: 6 MONTHS
JOB LOCATION: COLUMBUS, OH (ONSITE)
EXPERIENCE: 8-10 YEARS
Managerial Responsibilities:
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates.
- Managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.
- Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Creates an inclusive team where members are treated fairly and respectfully.
- Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates and expects process knowledge, data-driven decisions, simplicity and continuous improvement.
- Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Delivers clear and concise messages that motivate, convey the "why" and connects contributions to business results.
- Risk Manager: Leads and encourages the identification, escalation and resolution of potential risks.
- People Manager & Coach: Knows and develops team members through coaching and feedback.
- Financial Steward: Manages expenses and demonstrates an owner's mindset.
- Enterprise Talent Leader: Recruits, on-boards and develops talent, and supports talent mobility for career growth.
- Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results through effective team management, structure, and routines to ensure highly available, secure connectivity solutions and compatibility between systems.
- Write and maintain system documentation.
- Responsible for matching current technology with the needs of the company.
- Strong TCP/IP and SNA/APPN problem-solving and protocol skills, and a thorough understanding of Mainframe communication concepts and the ability to support mainframe connectivity design considerations.
- Knowledge of IBM zEnterprise server hardware
- In-depth working knowledge of TCP, UDP, ICMP communications and routing protocols
- Packet trace execution and analysis
- z/OS Communication Server Policy-Based Networking, and z/VM SSL Server configuration and support.
- 10-15 years in design, development, coordination and implementation of Mainframe network engineering activities within z/OS and z/VM.
- Strong knowledge of encryption technologies and Certificate management.
- Experience supporting z/OS session layer encryption technologies, including development and implementation of Network Configuration Assistant AT-TLS and IPsec policies.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in mainframe engineering
- 8-10 years of solid experience in z/OS engineering
Preferred Qualifications:
- Mainview installation, maintenance and customization.
- z/OS and zSeries hardware networking configuration.
- Performance and capacity reporting with zPCA and/or SAS/MXG and/or Intellimagic.
- zOSMF product installation and deployment.
- Experience with TCP/IP configuration and troubleshooting.
- Experience with storage management.
- Performance management with WLM.
- Reporting and planning with zPCA and/or SAS/MXG
- Independent Software Vendor installation and maintenance
- z/OS installation, customization and maintenance.
- Coupling Facility updates.
- ChangeMan Administration.
- Managing multiple tasks and delivering on committed target dates.
- Coordinates with application programmers and users to determine symptoms and ensure accurate problem resolution.
- Knowledge of banking industry business processes a plus.
- Good written and oral communication skills are required as the individual must interface with application developers, support teams, software vendors and management staff
Salary : $45 - $50