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Looking for Sr Application Production Support, RACF Engineer & Mainframe Network Engineer. at Remote, Remote, USA
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Hello,

This is Sham from Virtual Networx, and we are looking for Sr Application Production Support, RACF Engineer & Mainframe Network Engineer.

Please reach me at 469 209 6233 or

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Job Description:

Title: Sr Application Production Support

Address: New York, NY

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

Responsibilities:

Monitor, resolve system errors, disruptions. Document resolution. Manage Incident as per ITIL lifecycle. Liaise with upstream data providers to resolve issues. Respond to and solve inquiries and operations requested by users. Document, Review, handling and resolution steps for support scenarios.

Prepare and present stability reports and presentations. Analyze Alert and Stability trends and make recommendations. Investigate root cause of the issues, Inform and educate developers about the cause so that developers and mitigate the root cause.

Automate (1) Resolution of common problems (2) Routine investigations (3) Routine user requests using scripts or available programming platform. Lead reliability or business driven projects. Perform reliability engineering

You will work closely with engineering/development teams to design, build, and maintain systems and help them decide on products to use, schema design and query tuning.

You will troubleshoot issues across the entire stack: hardware, software, application and network.

You will mentor other SREs on standard methodology for everything from monitoring to troubleshooting complex code and database issues.

You will identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for the company; scope and create automation for deployment, management and visibility of our services.

Represent the SRE organization in design reviews and operational readiness exercises for new and existing services.

Participate in on-call rotation and periodic conference calls with other specialists from other time zones.

Required Experience:

Hands on experience with UNIX

Hands on experience with SQL based database

Three Tier Support experience with DBs such as IBM, DB2, Sybase, Mongo, Green Plum, KDB

Excellent analytical and communication skills

Ability to prioritize and willingness to take ownership

Problem solving mindset and solution enabler

Great Problem trouble shooting and debug ability

Familiar with Financial Products like Equity and Fixed Income, securities, different type of risks in an investment bank, Trade flow

Should be able to contribute in system design and architecture with strong database knowledge.

Desired Skills:

Knowledge of Automation Related activities using scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Perl, Ruby

Experience using Enterprise Tools such as App Dynamic, Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace

Awareness of, and ability to reason about modern software & systems architectures, including load-balancing, queueing, caching, distributed systems failure modes generally, micro services, and so on.

Deep understanding of operating system level concepts such as processes, memory allocation, and the network stack, understanding of how applications are affected by the above, and ability to debug same.

Generally speaking, practical experience running large scale online systems is always an advantage.

Job Description:

Title: RACF Engineer Consultant

Address: Fully Remote Role

Duration: 12+ Months

Requirement:

This role is for a senior RACF engineer consultant will assist with design and execution of projects aligned with the RACF security function. The ideal candidate should have advanced knowledge of RACF, ZSecure, and Mainframe infrastructure as they will be working closely with the other infrastructure teams (CICS, Systems Programming, Db2, etc.) and business supporting technologists. They should have strong analytical, organizational and communication skills. In addition to providing security guidance to our users while engineering solutions, they will also be responsible for coaching RACF team members. Periodic off-hour time as needed to implement and support project implementation. US based resource to provide service at *** facilities or remote as necessary.

Requirements:

Senior level: 10+ years related work experience as a RACF Engineer or Administrator

Advanced experience with IBM RACF and IBM-ZSecure configuration/ internals (engineering focus)

Ability to program in JCL, REXX and CarLa

Experience with z/OS utilities and facilities (such as: TSO, ISPF, SDSF)

Experience with database technology (such as: Sybase, DB2, SQL)

Experience with implementing Digital Certificates, encryption, MFA

Experience with and knowledge of common aspects of zOS installations (System Programming, Storage,

Networks, Unix Services, CICS, DB2, Performance, Tooling

Capable of working independently with limited oversight

Capable of project planning, organization, time management skills and ability to multi-task

MS Office business application experience (Excel, Word, Access, Power Point)

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Must be a team player and foster a team first environment and inclusive culture

Key Activities:

Duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

Assist the Security Architecture and RACF engineering and policy teams and their books of work to develop technical solutions to business problems based upon security best practices.

RACF engineering support of MS Mainframe Security products and initiatives

Designing and assessing technical feasibility of proposals to achieve the Security initiatives of the Firm.

Design / support Firm's mainframe initiatives related to authentication (such as Kerberos, Digital Certificates, encryption, MFA), authorization (such as role-based security, privileged access, sensitive data protection, etc.), automation (tooling, reports, utilities, and batch)

Interact with infrastructure technology teams (such as Systems Programming, DBA, CICS/MQ Support), application technology teams, business users, and audit.

Monitor and analyze key performance indicators and establish processes and methodologies for preventative actions.

Participate address questions/issues related to mainframe security best practice.

Job Description:

Title: Mainframe Network Engineering(Mainframe & Network Engineer)

Address
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100% Remote Role

Duration: 12+ Contract

100% remote/ need someone who can work as per EST time zone

Mainframe Network Engineering will be supporting a firmwide initiative to enable encryption for all data in transit.

Our focus will be on assessing all connections to and from the mainframe, enabling encryption, and supporting application adoption.

Partner with mainframe security team to identify and assist with certificates required for encryption enablement.

Candidate will also be expected to support production responsibilities of the network team, including TCP/IP, VTAM, NDM/Connect: Direct, FTP, TPX and participate in on-call rotation.

Skills Required:

Candidates will need to have experience with reporting and understanding zERT information. Coding and troubleshooting Policy Agent AT-TLS rules with zOSMF.

Strong understanding of data encryption (technology solutions, protocols, best practices, etc.) and security concepts specific to mainframe.

Ability to program in TSO/REXX or SAS for SMF record analysis.

Work experience with;

IBM z/OS TCP/IP configuration and customization.

IBM TSO and basic z/OS utilities.

IBM z/OS platform and software, including operation, customization and problem determination.

Familiarity with CA/NetMaster, NDM/Connect: Direct, TPX and JIRA a plus.

Attributes:

Self-motivated individual capable of working independently with limited oversight

Good project planning, organization, documentation, time management skills and ability to multi-task

MS Office business application experience (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

Must be a team player and foster a team first environment and culture 7+ years of relevant experience

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