Mainframe Batch Scheduler - North Chicago, United States - Siri InfoSolutions Inc

Siri InfoSolutions Inc
Siri InfoSolutions Inc
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North Chicago, United States

2 weeks ago

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Description

Job title:
Mainframe Batch Scheduler

Location:
Chicago, IL

Duration:
Contract

  • Supporting and maintaining the Scheduling Platform, running on BMC CONTROL-M (both TSO and Enterprise Manager GUI versions)
  • Create/modify/maintain batch job schedules.
  • Follow change control process for production job promotions.
  • Identify and cleanup decommissioned jobs.
  • Will be responsible to participate in Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings and represent the Production Control team.
  • Subject matter expert responsible for skilled Level 3 activities
  • Resolve complicated issues escalated from Level 2 teams.
  • Perform indepth Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and support Problem Management activities.
  • Handle Major Incidents and drive SWAT Calls implementing Risk.
  • Implement Level 1 & 2 complex Changes.
  • Identify Continuous Service Improvement (CSI) initiatives to improve the quality of service and reduce the cost of operations through Shift Left Service delivery.
  • Perform / Lead Audit and DR activities.
  • Introduce Automation and CI (continuous improvement) (Eg. health checks, patching, minor repetitive changes)
  • Perform trend analysis on tickets for improvement opportunities on alert handling.
  • Training / mentoring L2 analysts to groom further expertise.
  • Crosstraining other members of the team to build more breadth in coverage.
  • Participate in training for new technologies as delivered by the ENG teams for support.
  • Overseeing and participating in documentation maintenance
  • Creation of documentation for each lesson learned by lowerlevel analysts to utilize in training.
  • Performing ticket quality analysis
  • Oncall escalation support and upkeep of On-Call Schedules
  • Overseeing the creation of and sharing the weekly team roster for the team
  • Knowing escalation paths and expectations for least impacts to business and clients
  • Acknowledging change tasks for proper content
  • Good documentation written, communication and verbal skills.
  • Work closely with various Application support, Development, and z/OS Support teams for their batch scheduling requirements.
  • Providing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to determine the facts based on the problem.
Experience (preferred)

  • Sound hands on experience (610 years) as a Batch Job Scheduler (aka Production Control Analyst) working in Mainframe and Distributed environments.
  • Review change requests and deploy batch jobs (add/remove/modify) in the Scheduler tool.
  • Scheduling experience on Scheduler tool BMC CONTROL-M (TSO and Enterprise Manager GUI versions)
  • Good knowledge of JCLs and PROCs
  • Troubleshooting experience job failures, hung jobs, and remote agent and resource issues, etc.

Pay:
$ $40.00 per hour


Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift

Experience:

- mainframe: 5 years (required)


Ability to Relocate:

  • North Chicago, IL 60064: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location:
In person
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