2020-02-04
SAIC (www.saic.com)
Other
/yr
full-time
employee
Vienna
Virginia
22182
United States
Description
SAIC is seeking a senior system engineer with extensive firsthand experience with supporting mainframe: applications, job scheduling, report generation, and providing real-time analysis and remediation of fault conditions. The position will provide support, problem resolution, and analysis for all of the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) mainframe applications. Daily activities include reviewing the following mainframe applications: API, FRB, Lockbox, ATS, Adhoc DB, Tax Subsystem, RPO, Statements, Mainframe Utilities, Accounting, Omniplus, Omnipay. Daily activities include reviewing the following Client server applications: Daily Notices, Statements, Legacy Statements, 1099R, supporting report archiving and Connect:Direct transmission processes.
The candidate will need to provide 24/7 support on an on-call basis.
Qualifications
The well qualified candidate will possess the following skills and experience:
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Strong attention to detail
Datacenter Operations background
Work independently with minimal direct supervision
Must be able to work on multiple tasks simultaneously
Strong organizational and presentation skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
SOP (standard operating procedures) and Checklist review and process, be able to recognize out of ordinary conditions, analyze, and resolve
Knowledge and experience with IBM Mainframes, Mainframe Operations
Experience in project life cycle phases a plus
Responsibilities
Supports the Development and Test team’s testing efforts
Participate in the Disaster Recovery exercises
Provide audit information per request
Provides on call Tier 2 support
Monitor media to detect problems that require resolution as part of daily processing
Perform post processing support for production and test file sets as required
Conducts initial analysis on all production job abends and participates in a conference calls for troubleshooting and analysis
Provide a resolution and/or recommendation to the Tier III development staff if a code change is required for mainframe job failures
Services and maintains assigned ServiceNow incidents in a timely manner
Qualifications
Required Skills (extensive knowledge)
Extensive hands-on experience with the following mainframe operating system and software: z/OS, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, SDSF, CICS, CA Scheduler
Languages: COBOL, JCL
Required Education: Bachelor degree in an IT related discipline and nine (9) years or more of relevant experience; or a Master’s degree and seven (7) years or more of relevant experience
Desired Qualifications
Databases: DB2
Tools: SYNCSORT, File-Aid, CA-Scheduler, SQL, SPUFI, FTP, Connect:Direct, ServiceNow, IBM utilities, MS-Outlook, Microsoft Office, SlickEdit