Infrastructure Engineer II

Job Description

Role - Infrastructure Engineer Location - Bromley The Team z/OS Program Product Engineering a well-established, 16 member team which is globally disbursed through the US and UK. We install and support more than 100 IBM and ISV program products and licensed features across 42 mainframe SYSPLEXes. Our primary customersare engineering, operations and product administration teams with occasional engagement from application developers. There are 4 team managers who provide focus, oversight, management of key factors supporting our success (compliance, governance, initiatives, security, architecture, contingency, standardization, and QA processes and tooling). The four team managers work collaborativelyas an extension of the technical manager, to ensure that they each have clear view of the entire team and that the team works cohesively to meet our goals. The individual team members have varying experience ranging from 6 to more than 40 years working with the IBM z/OS environment. While the individuals are aligned under the four managers, they work cohesively as a team. They all participate in duty rotationssuch as on-call, build / deploy and disaster recovery exercise support. Individuals product support assignments can change to meet not only the needs of the team use, but the individual, to develop both their technical and behavioral or management skills. The primary mindset for success in OSS-PPE is that we are a team and we are here to support each other and maintain the professional reputation of the team. The technical managers role is to protect, defend and grow his team, which can only succeed when theteam behaves and executes in a manner to empower the technical manager. Key is risk awareness and adherence to policies and procedures to avoid unforeseen impact to our customers. The technical manager looks for and encourages his team to be aware of long range opportunities for process and compliance improvement. This can result in efforts to drive out variation, through simplification, standardization and tooling to support and accelerateour processes. The team has served as a model for others in its process, tooling and approach toward its responsibilities. It has seen other engineering teams use the OSS-PPE tooling and approaches for such items as inventory management, distribution control, automated healthchecks and validation, and identification of emerging vulnerabilities. Skills and Experience Information Technology degree and/or technology certifications preferred or substantial equivalent experience. Required: Strong understanding and possess working knowledge of IBM Mainframe z/OS operating system, control, structure, logic, security. Experience with IBM z/OS system and subsystem software and components with experience to support, develop and enhance tools and methodologies for managing large scale global deployment. Must be proficient with problem determination, analysis and resolution. Extensive understanding of IBM zEnterprise server hardware and facilities Strong knowledge and experience with SMP/E, JES2, JCL, ISPF dialog management, REXX. Experience with wide range of IBM and ISV product and vendor installation support tools number of years experience in mainframe systems programming role. Preferred: Experience with System Automation, Performance Monitoring, Communication Server, CICS, DB2, IMS, WMQ, Batch Scheduling, Change Management, Storage Management, ISPF dialog development, HTML. Any Certified training in the following topics should be highlighted by the applicant; SMP/E Planning for z/OS z/OS Installation z/OS Configuration and Customization z/OS Maintenance Best Practices z Systems Hardware / Architecture Parallel Sysplex Clustering TSO / ISPF / USS Job Control Language (JCL) Batch and JES2 / JES3 Security (SAF) z/OS Performance Basics Workload Manger (WLM) z/OS Operations and Commands Transaction Management Database Management Networking (Communications Server) WebSphere Messaging and Queuing HTTP Server WebSphere Application Server Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Bank of America Every day, across the globe, our employees bring a commitment to our purpose and to driving responsible growth by living our values: deliver together, act responsibly, realize the power of our people and trust the team. A key aspect of driving responsible growthis doing so in a sustainable manner, a critical pillar of which is being a great place to work for our teammates. 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