Job Specs

The Innovation and Technology Department of San Bernardino County is seeking a motivated contract mainframe system administrator. The candidate will …

·Work business hours and occasional after hours and weekends.

·Provide for coverage of other mainframe system administrators as necessary.

·Provide on-call support after hours and weekends, participate in an on-call rotation.

Contract Duration: 1 to 5 years (renewed annually).

Responsibilities

• Install, implement, test, tune and support IBM and 3^rd party mainframe software.
• Provide Support for customers and application developers.
• Disaster Recovery preparedness by maintaining, tuning, and testing backup and recovery processes.  Perform system recovery if necessary.
• Perform storage management, capacity planning, system performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Support network connectivity to mainframe TCPIP, VIPA etc.
• Support computer operations and other mainframe staff to ensure smooth operation of mainframe batch and online systems.

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience with zOS administration such as IODF, HCD, SMPE, zOSMF, and performing System upgrades.
• Experience with performing archive, backup and recovery of datasets, and disaster preparedness.
• Experience with mainframe batch scheduling such as ESP or Control-M and tuning of system performance with WLM.
• Experience with REXX and JCL and administering Unix System Services.
• Experience with mainframe networking such as TCPIP, VIPA, VTAM, and administration of RACF digital certificates for encryption technologies for secure FTP and secure TN3270 using Policy Agent.
• In-depth experience performing troubleshooting of zOS and 3^rd party mainframe software.

Desirable Skills and knowledge, but not required:

• Sysview, ESP, Endevor, Spool, View/Deliver and/or OPS/MVS from Broadcom
• IBM File Manager, Debugger, Fault Analyzer
• Shadow from Rocket software
• FDR
• IBM Tivoli Decision Support
• IBM IDAA loader or Data Virtualization Manager
• IBM Cloud Tape Connector
• SAS
• DB2 and/or IMS database systems

Experience and Education:

• Minimum of 5 years as zOS system administrator (system programmer).
• Thirty (30) semester (45 quarter) units of completed, post high-school coursework from an accredited university or technical school in Computer Information Systems, Business/Public Administration, or a closely related field.