At a Glance
- Tasks: Maintain and support mainframe batch processing and ensure 24/7 system availability.
- Company: Join a leading tech organization focused on operational excellence.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, health benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with strong emphasis on collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Be part of a critical team ensuring seamless operations for public-facing applications.
- Qualifications: 5-8 years experience with zOs mainframe systems and CA7 scheduling tools.
The predicted salary is between 75375 - 92125 $ per year.
About the job
Description
Deliverables:
- Maintaining onsite and remote services for KTLO-Monitoring, Maintaining and supporting mainframe batch processing.
Key Responsibilities:
- End to End monitoring of mainframes Scheduling and batch processing systems 24/7/365 to ensure these are available as per defined SLAs by taking prompt necessary actions or escalating to Technical supports as needed.
- These services include critical, essential, time sensitive public facing applications, websites, systems, subsystems which are hosted in OPS Guelph and Kingston data centres.
- Responsible for analysis, investigation and resolution of production batch processing failures.
- Responsible for escalation of batch processing incidents to technical support teams, clients and management.
- Provide Operational system updates/upgrades and address issues involved during these tasks.
- Implementing batch and online system Change requests.
- Ensuring Service level commitments to ITS clients and stakeholders and broader public sector agencies are met.
- Participating in developing and delivering related training communications and procedural documentation.
- Participate in Yearly Systrust Audit.
- Plan and participates in semi Annual Disaster/contingency recovery exercises.
- Running and testing recovery procedure and plans on all application systems.
- Responsible for providing specialized automated scheduling expertise and to advise to peers and clients regarding batch processing scheduling options.
- Responsible for modifying the automated scheduling tools to meet client needs for increased operational efficiency.
- Responsible for providing technical expertise and guidance relating to technical standards for production batch processing and the use of automated scheduling tools.
- Providing technical expertise in the area of job optimization, problem analysis and use of processing utilities.
- Planning, leading and performing development testing and implementation of new automated schedules for clients and in-house applications within established time frames.
- Co-ordinating the collection of data for statistical analysis of production performance results to use in assessing workload and production scheduling.
Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Evaluation Breakdown Parameters:
- 5-8+ years of demonstrated experience supporting large zOs mainframe systems and applications eg TSO/ISPF and JCL
- 5-8+ years of demonstrated knowledge of CA7 automated scheduling tools and client scheduling process, batch and online applications IMS and DB2.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Incident and Change Management activities.
- Demonstrated ability for strong documentation and writing skills.
- Demonstrated experience in presentation, verbal and written communications skills.
- Demonstrated abilities to administer and maintain continuous operations of production scheduling and batch processing.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Service Management Tools such as eSMT, CIT, Remedy and ITIL.
- Demonstrated knowledge of OS365 Suite of products.
- Demonstrated Ability to review and access ongoing and changing client requirements.
Must Have:
- 5-8+ years of demonstrated experience supporting large zOs mainframe systems and applications eg TSO/ISPF and JCL
- 5-8+ years of demonstrated knowledge of CA7 automated scheduling tools and client scheduling process, batch and online applications IMS and DB2.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Service Management Tools such as eSMT, CIT, Remedy and ITIL.
Senior Systems Administrator/Operations Support Specialist in Toronto employer: Rubicon Path
As a Systems Testing/QA Specialist at our Toronto location, you will thrive in a collaborative and innovative work culture that prioritizes quality and continuous improvement. We offer competitive benefits, opportunities for professional growth, and a commitment to work-life balance, ensuring that you can excel in your role while contributing to meaningful projects that impact the community. Join us to be part of a dynamic team dedicated to delivering high-quality solutions in a supportive environment.
We think you need these skills to ace Senior Systems Administrator/Operations Support Specialist in Toronto
Mainframe Systems Support
TSO/ISPF
JCL
CA7 Automated Scheduling Tools
Batch Processing
IMS
DB2
