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z/OS System Programmer

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IBM

z/OS System Programmer

Hortolândia, Brazil

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

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Your role and responsibilities

As an SRE in IBM Consulting, you'll serve as a leader in defining solutions for clients. You'll identify insights and tasks that can be automated. You'll have the opportunity to identify points of improvement in technical processes and propose new ways to do it through automation, help our customer to resolve their pain points and, through co-creation, define solutions that allow improving the efficiency of their operations. Your primary responsibilities include: Strategic Design and Analysis of Distributed Systems: Design, analyze, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. Proactive Reliability Management and Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotation, engage with product teams to fix production outages, and carry forward action items to improve ongoing reliability. Empowering Tools and Automation for Enhanced Reliability: Develop effective tooling, alerts, and response to both identify and address reliability risks including automatic problem detection and mitigation.

Required education

Associate's Degree/College Diploma

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • Planning, installing, configuring, and implementing z/OS
  • Installing, migrating, monitoring, securing, and enabling z/OS
  • Planning, configuring, and implementing z/OS for continuous availability across planned or unplanned outage of any single hardware or software element.
  • Planning, installing, testing, and implementing z/OS service level upgrade and patches.
  • Planning and implementing configuration changes to enhance z/OS performance.
  • Creating and deploying z/OS operating system
  • Providing technical assistance to IBM Infrastructure programmers and end users.
  • May require rotating 24x7 on-call support responsibility as well as weekend support
  • Providing and maintaining documentation for end users

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • 3-5 years of experience as a z/OS systems programmer
  • Experience with z/OS, z/OS UNIX System Services, SMP/E, TCPIP, RACF, JCL, ISPF, SMS, z/OSMF, and other standard z/OS components/products
  • Experience with programming languages, such as REXX, JSON, and python
  • Understanding of SYSPLEX, IODF, IOCDS, FICON, CATALOG, control units and standard z/OS configuration best practices
  • Experience or familiarity with Jira and Problem/ Change tools
  • Knowledge of IBM mainframe technologies including zCX
  • Good communication skills both written and oral are required as the individual must interface with application developers, support teams, software vendors and management staff

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IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

All our positions are eligible for people with disabilities PwD or rehabilitated.

Client-provided location(s): Hortolândia, State of São Paulo, Brazil
Job ID: IBM-31429
Employment Type: Other

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