OMEGAMON Specialist

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain OMEGAMON monitoring infrastructure.
• Monitor health of z/OS, CICS, DB2, IMS, MQ, and storage subsystems.
• Develop automated alerting and event correlation.
• Create dashboards and operational reporting.
• Support proactive detection of performance degradation.
• Integrate monitoring data with AIOps and Bridge analytics initiatives.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• OMEGAMON Suite Administration
• Tivoli Monitoring
• Enterprise Monitoring Architecture
• RMF Analysis
• SMF Analysis
• Performance Baseline Development
• Event Correlation
• Threshold Management
• Root Cause Analysis
• Systems Diagnostics
• Automation Concepts
• AIOps Integration
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016/2019 implementation and management
• VMware ESX experience
• Public/private cloud management. Especially migration from onprem to cloud solution

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• IBM OMEGAMON or IBM Z Monitoring certifications.
• Experience with IBM Z Monitoring Suite, IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM), and IBM NetView.
• Knowledge of IBM Z AIOps, Watson AIOps, or similar AIOps platforms.
• Experience integrating monitoring data with Splunk, Elastic, Grafana, or enterprise analytics tools.
• Familiarity with System Automation for z/OS (SA z/OS) and automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of z/OSMF, Parallel Sysplex, and IBM Z infrastructure.
• Experience with REXX, JCL, and automation scripting.
• Understanding of CICS, Db2, IMS, MQ, and enterprise storage performance monitoring.
• Experience with ITIL Incident, Problem, and Event Management processes.
• Strong documentation, stakeholder communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience supporting 24×7 mission-critical enterprise production environments.
• Ability to mentor team members and contribute to monitoring strategy and continuous service improvement initiatives.
• Automation experience, especially IaaS (infrastructure as a code)
• Vulnerability management
• Microsoft Active Directory and federation services