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NOVA-Diné · 4 hours ago

IBM z/OS Systems Programmer

United States

Full-time

Remote

New Grad, Entry Level

NOVA-Diné is a Navajo Nation owned family of companies that delivers IT solutions to government agencies. They are seeking an IBM z/OS Systems Programmer to provide planning, implementation, and troubleshooting for IBM Mainframe projects, ensuring successful software and hardware upgrades on the IBM z/OS platform.

Information TechnologySoftware

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Provide planning, which includes development of implementation and installation plans for IBM Mainframe projects. The implementation plan shall include: detailed steps and requirements to successfully implement OS’s, software or hardware upgrades, or installations to IBM System z/OS mainframe platform. Provide timelines and milestones required for implementation or upgrade of the IBM mainframe platform to meet government established project deadlines

Use required software tools, including IBM System Modification Program/extended (SMP/e), IBM system utilities (including IEBGENER (generalized copy utility), IEBCOPY (utility to copy, compress, merge partitioned data sets), IDCAMS (access method services), to create, populate, update and configure required datasets and parameter libraries and members to successfully implement software installations and upgrades on the IBM mainframe platform

Create and deliver detailed installation/upgrade documentation, using government specified software and processes and formats. This documentation will include detailed dataset names, configuration parameters, and installation/upgrade procedures used to install/upgrade the IBM mainframe OS, software or hardware

Use IBM SMP/e to successfully receive and apply z/OS software and other related software on an IBM Mainframe. This includes interpreting SMP/e output messages to resolve software installation issues and requirements, use SMP/e panels to manage software installation packages, define SMP/e required parameters to successfully install and maintain OS and associated software products

Create, define and manage system and user catalogs on the IBM Mainframe platform. This includes using the appropriate catalog management utilities to create, update, merge and debug system and user catalogs

Diagnose and resolve IBM z/OS system abends and abnormal operating environment problems using system logs, and other available logs and documents. This includes creating and interpreting system traces and dumps, job output, and monitoring tools

Create, populate, secure and troubleshoot IBM z/OS USS (UNIX Systems Services) file systems and mount points. Manage the USS environment on an IBM z/OS mainframe platform

Create/update and debug z/OS parameters using government processes and procedures and requirements (aka PARMLIB)

Plan, create and update accurate, detailed documentation for IBM z/OS mainframe platform software/hardware installation/upgrades

Use IBM z/OS mainframe job processing to analyze and debug batch processing issues. This includes an understanding of dispatching priorities and IBM z/OS mainframe security products and standard IBM mainframe software integration

Use IBM z/OS mainframe communications products, including Virtual Telecommunications Access Method (VTAM), Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Create, update, and debug Job Entry Subsystem (JES2) parameters and statements

Use knowledge of storage management tools and techniques including Data Facility Hierarchical Storage Manager (DFHSM), IBM utility used for backup and recovery (ADRDSSU), Systems Managed Storage (SMS) and virtual tape systems to perform installation, upgrade and debugging of IBM z/OS platform issues

Other duties as assigned