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- Los Angeles County (County), Internal Services Department (ISD) seeks to obtain the services of one (1) Consultant at the level of IBM Z/OS Systems Programmer to assist ISD’s Technology Division (TD) with the IBM Mainframe operating system environment.
- The Consultant shall assist with the upgrade and migration of z/OS 2.3 to z/OS 2.4, including migration of the Disaster Recovery (DR) site from Mainframe Z12BC to new Z15, this includes customization and problem
- determination on zSeries type Processors with their associated HMC Consoles, SYSPLEX, Coupling Facilities, OSA (Networking Interface), ICC (Integrated Console Controller), FICON, DASD and Tape management, and Network.
- Install/Upgrade z/OS 2.3 to 2.4 using SMP/E and SHOPz.
- Modify HCD/IODEF changes to support Z12BC to Z15 hardware upgrade.
- Upgrade Z/OS third party tools to support Z/OS 2.4.
- Setup and configure FTP to FTPS conversion changes on Z/OS end.
- Define and maintain Sysplex, Coupling Facilities, HMC (Processor Interface), OSA (Networking Interface), ICC (Integrated Console Controller), FICON (Fiber connectivity to peripheral devices).
- Implement IBM zSeries Coupling Facility structure definition and operation support to move structures for machine outages, FICON switch configuration and definition in HCD, Server Time Protocol (STP) configuration and
- Work on IBM’s ISPF, JCL, SDSF, CLISTs, REXX execs, and TSO/E command processors to assist in the customization and usability of z/OS and program products.
- Document all technical work, enhance existing documentation, and maintain all documentation in the Section’s documentation repository.
- Provide technical assistance to customers and Operations Division.
- Provide z/OS troubleshooting, problem resolution and 24 x 7 x 365 on-call after hours and weekend support.
- Five (5) years of experience in the last seven (7) years as a systems programmer using IBM’s ServerPac/SHOPz/SMPe for installing, configuring, and updating the z/OS operating system and other system level software products on IBM Mainframe hardware in a Parallel Sysplex environment.
- Five (5) years of experience in the last seven (7) years as a systems programmer developing IBM zSeries Coupling Facility structure definition and operation support to move structures for machine outages.
- Five (5) years of experience in the last seven (7) years as a systems programmer working with IBM’s z/OS Unix Systems Services (USS).
- Five (5) years of experience in the last seven (7) years as a systems programmer defining hardware Input/Output configurations and IODEF using IBM’s Hardware Configuration Definition (HCD) facility.
- Five (5) years of experience in the last seven (7) years as a systems programmer configuring IBM Enterprise Server LPARs and System Time Protocol (STP) using IBM’s Hardware Management Console (HMC).
- ID: #22667591
- State: California Downey 90242 Downey USA
- City: Downey
- Salary: Depends on Experience
- Job type: Contract
- Showed: 2021-11-13
- Deadline: 2022-01-11
- Category: Et cetera