Kyndryl Looking for Senior Systems Administrator – z/OS & Software Products at Ottawa, ON Full Time

Background:

Kyndryl’s government client has a requirement for a Senior Systems Administrator z/OS & Software Products to work with their Mainframe Operations Team.

The team has a commitment to partners and clients to meet and maintain day-to-day operations and Service Level Agreements. There is currently a shortage of in-house Senior Systems Administrators with the required skill sets.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• Secret clearance
• 10 Years of experience with Systems Programming on IBM mainframes. This includes experience with TSO/E, ISPF, SDSF, JCL and IBM utilities
• 10 years of experience installing or migrating z/OS upgrades
• 10 years of experience maintaining z/OS systems including: parameter definition, IPL’s, profile maintenance and catalog management
• 10 years of experience in troubleshooting

Asset criteria:

• 7+ years of experience with resolving conflicts between clients and technical supporters
• 16 or more projects’ experience participating in zSeries teams meeting project and or technical guidelines
• 8+ years of experience working with clients in order to confirm requirements of usage and providing best practice recommendations
• 4+ years pf experience with ITIL Service Management and ITIL Change Management processes
• 8+ years of experience providing cross-training and knowledge transfer
• 6+ years of experience with various z/OS monitoring/debugging facilities (IPCS, RMF, SMF).
• 6+ years of experience with installing, maintaining and supporting “third party” products from ISV’s (Independent Software Vendors e.g. CA, BMC, Compuware, etc.) in a zSeries environment

Responsibilities:

• Systems Programming on IBM mainframes
• Installing or migrating z/OS upgrades
• Maintaining z/OS systems including parameter definition; IPL’s, profile maintenance, and catalog management
• Troubleshooting production including performance issues, IPL problems, system dump analysis
• Applying maintenance to z/OS and related products via the SMP IBM maintenance product
• Identifying performance challenges and implementing performance improvement and functional requirement strategies
• Creating and maintaining documentation including, but not limited to: operating system installation, maintenance, support, specification, architecture, build, backup/ restore procedures
• Participation in the development and creation of final build strategies as necessary
• Installing, maintaining and supporting “third party” products (i.e. – Computer Associates, BMC, Compuware, etc.)
• Installing, maintaining and supporting various LPARS and the associated operating z/OS infrastructure
• Providing support to multiple partners and clients (including application development teams), onsite and on an “on-call” basis
• Monitoring of the service management ticketing systems and respond to Incident Requests (IR), Request for Changes (RFC) and Solution Requests (SR)
• Installing and configuring various monitoring or management tools such as ITCAM
• Installing and configuring various monitoring or management tools
• Maintaining and recommending enhancements to the operating system security environment
• Making technical and procedural recommendations and enhancements
• Training of full-time resources.

Job Types: Fixed term contract, Full-time
Contract length: 5 months

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• On call

Application question(s):

• Do you hold a valid Secret clearance with the Federal Government of Canada?
• Do you have 10 + years’ experience with systems programming on IBM mainframes?

Expected start date: 2022-11-01