Engineer Lead, Software – SA for ZOS Senior Administrator

About this role

Position Type :

Full time

Type Of Hire :

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Education Desired :

Bachelor of Computer Science

Job Description

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

About the Team:

The Mainframe Automations and Monitoring team is responsible for all Mainframe automation packages, and system health and availability monitoring. FIS standard automation packages are SA for ZOS, OPSMVS, and Omegamon. The support is across multiple physical mainframe locations consisting of many LPARs in various configurations, which include stand-alone and parallel sysplex environments. We are looking for a motivated self-starter who is anxious to step in and contribute while expanding your technical knowledge and skills.

About the role:

The Engineer Lead, Software – SA for ZOS Senior Administrator is a senior level member of a z/OS operating system and operating system components team. The team supports several physical environments consisting of multiple z/OS environments/systems, including a mix of stand-alone LPARs and parallel sysplex LPARs, in a large and diverse high availability environment. Duties to include:

• Self-starter

• Analyze environments and issues, and develop automated solutions.
• Provide leadership, assisting less experienced people, and as a backup to the manager.
• Provide on-call support on a rotating basis.
• Provide weekend and off-shift support as needed for sensitive changes and upgrades.
• Interact effectively with team members and other FIS teams around the world.
• Interact effectively with IBM & colleagues, maintaining knowledge and improving the automation & monitoring environment.
• Interact effective...