Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions.
Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.
IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.
Candidates for this position will define scope and objectives for technical projects in the area of their specialty, varying in size and complexity. Day-to-day responsibilities will include troubleshooting of the applications, systems, and support of the mainframe offering environment. The working environment requires the candidate to work independently, where guidelines are available but are not always specific. They will also frequently contribute to the development of new theories and methods to resolve applications support issues.
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Ultimately, the role of the Mainframe Systems Engineer is to ensure the optimal performance and reliability of our mainframe systems in compliance with company standards and best practices.
Your role and responsibilities
The candidate will be responsible for delivery, support, management, and overall functions of the system and supporting applications pertaining to the IBM mainframe environment. This will include troubleshooting, offering resolutions, or resolving technical errors and issues arising from the use of the systems and applications.
The environment includes IBM mainframes, DASD, internal management applications, and customer-facing services. The mainframe engineering team is responsible for maintaining a high level of stability and security, while minimizing system outages of the applications and systems supported. They are directly responsible for the planning of and participation in the maintenance/enhancements of the supported systems and keeping microcode at a reasonable current level.
This candidate will also act as a mentor to other technical engineers and may be asked to act as a project lead where appropriate.
Duties include but not limited to:
• Design, develop and maintain mainframe systems
• Perform system installations and upgrades
• Conduct system performance tuning and capacity planning
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, and take corrective action
• Monitor system performance and availability to ensure reliability and scalability
• Create and maintain system documentation and reports
• Ensure system security compliance
• Develop automation scripts to streamline IPL, operational tasks
• Coordinate with other IT teams for integration and support issues
• Stay abreast of advances in technology and industry best practices
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Proven work experience as a Mainframe Systems Engineer or similar role
- Excellent knowledge of SMPE, JCL
- Working knowledge of COBOL, DB2, CICS, WAS, OMVS, IBM Storage (CSM), RACF(ZSecure), SMS, Rexx (As it pertains to automation with Netview).
- Experience with mainframe systems management and security practices
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve system problems
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Preferred technical and professional experience
- Experience in Data Center Migration, including Sysgen Creation, HMC, DASD, and LPAR configuration
- Experience in DS8000 Replication
- Knowledge of Channel Addressing and TCPIP/VTAM
- Strong knowledge of MVS / zOS
- Experience in automation scripting
- Previous JES3 / JES2 migration.
- zOS Upgrade/Install using zOSMF
- Experience with previous Mainframe Moves/Migrations.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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ABOUT IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.
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