IT Operations Support Specialist

Skills Required:

JES2, MVS, TSO/ISPF, JES3, IMS, CA7, IBM Utilities

Experience Required:

Specialist Exp: 5+ experience in relevant field

Education Required:

Bachelor's Degree

Additional Information :

Willing to working night shift is must

Employee in this job function is responsible for ensuring reliable and efficient operations of physical or virtual servers, and other business critical infrastructure components and manage a 24x7 team of 30 team members. They oversee the technology infrastructure that supports the business and support internal users in troubleshooting and escalating issues that impact system health.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for day-to-day operations of Mainframe computing platform ensuring high availability including hardware and s/w components.

2. Manage Monitoring and Support of Mainframe Consoles, HMC, TEP and other monitoring tools. Respond to system alerts, abends (abnormal ends), and production issues.

3. Provide first line support for all z/OS, JES2 and JES3 and middleware issues using documented operating procedures. Perform first-level diagnosis, escalate to system programmers or application teams if needed.

4. Support regular maintenance activities—IPL/POR. Perform routine health checks and apply patches or fixes as directed.

5. Maintain accurate operational procedures, run books, and incident logs.

6. Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing.

7. Suggest automation opportunities and process improvements.

8. Mainframe Batch Event Monitoring (CA7) & Scheduling, Mainframe Online transaction Failure Handling and Batch and first line closure of issues.

9. Manage bridge calls during incidents.