Consultant / Senior Consultant - Mainframe developer

Job Description This position is for a Senior Mainframe developer who will be primarily accountable for ensuring a highly available mainframe system. This results-oriented job requires a solid understanding of mainframe sub-subsystems in a large scale parallel sysplex IBM Enterprise environment. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES Monitor the health of the CICS/MQ environments and help troubleshoot issues to determine root causes Support the IBM Z Mainframe z/OS environment using ISPF/SDSF, COBOL JCL, DB2, CICS and third-party utilities Provide stable and secure mainframe sub-system support Use performance reports/metrics to identify process/availability improvement opportunities Conduct change inspections; determine associated risks and readiness for implementation Available to work a flexible work schedule that would include infrastructure releases EXPERIENCE Required: 6 to 9 years of relevant experience Experience in mainframe technology mentioned below: COBOL DB2 Databases CICS SQL JCL VSAM Teradata Databases MQ Series MQ Visual Edit IBM UrbanCode Deploy TS02 Corporate Code Tables Batch Checkpoint/Restart CATS (Change Automation for Transaction Series) FTP for Batch and Online SPUFI IBM Load/Unload (Utilities) IDCAMS QMF (DB2 Query Management Facility) IMS BMC (Mainframe Middleware Administrator) Hicore / Browse tables in data space IBM VisualAge Interspace