zOS Batch Operations (Mainframe Production Support)

Job description

Over the past 100 years, IBMers all over the globe have helped make the world work better and smarter. In this new era of Cognitive Business, IBM is helping to reshape industries by bringing together our expertise in Cloud, Analytics, Security, Mobile, and the Internet of Things: Changing how we create, collaborate, analyze and engage. From transforming healthcare to improving the retail shopping experience – it's what IBMers do. As we tackle the world's biggest challenges, our company continues to grow, we're looking for talented professionals to join us in this new era.

Join us and be part of a diverse and global team of thinkers and doers - people who want to make an impact, cultivate their expertise and collaborate with some of the world's top business and technology professionals.

zOS Batch Operations (Mainframe Production Support)
·  Monitoring the TWS Ready List and Current Plan for running jobs - identifying and investigating failed batch jobs
·  Maintain daily plan schedule - understand manage and maintain the daily planning process
·  Understand, manage and maintain the Long Term Plan and its processes
·  Build, administer, manage and maintain batch jobs in schedules and batch schedule groups hosted in the TWS Application Database
·  Able to fully operate and exploit the features of the TWS scheduling package including batch monitoring, special resources, Event Trigger Tracking (ETT), Conditional scheduling, TWS JCL variables and variable substitution
·  Understanding of JCL, procedures and batch processing
·  Good understanding of the workflow processes of a batch job; SDSF navigation, JES2 interrogation; JES2 and WLM initiation.
·  Configure and understand the auditting reports available with TWS
·  Ownership and maintenance responsibility for the job JCL for batch jobs scheduled via TWS
·  Communicate with team owners regarding job JCL or batch suite changes as well as batch job problems.
·  Liaise with System Programmers regarding the maintenance patching and new versions of the scheduling product - support, test and validate functionality ensuring all processes work as expected.
·  Good understanding of sysplex and scheduling configurations in a sysplex datasharing environment.
·  Provide daily communication and coordination across the operations area and interactive with the 24/7 Operations team
·  Good problem determination skills; able to escalate and follow ITIL processes when dealing with incidents and changes. Technical
·  TWS, JCL, Procedures, Variable substituion, REXX, VSAM, JES2 Operations, SDSF, IBM Utilities, batch flow processes, sysplex
Auto req ID

69711BR
Required Education

Bachelor's Degree
Role ( Job Role )

Operations Specialist
State / Province

ANY
Primary job category

Technical Services
Contract type

Fixed Term - Long Term
Employment Type

Full-Time
ERBP

Yes
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No
Travel Required

No Travel
IBM Business Group

GTS
Preferred Education

None
City / Township / Village

RIYADH
EO Statement

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise

More than 3 years of related experience
Country

Saudi Arabia
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

None
Secondary Job Category

Other Technical Services
Eligibility Requirements

None