Mainframe Systems Engineer

Tekskills Inc.; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekskills Inc. in Chennai, India is seeking a System Administrator with strong mainframe experience to manage and optimize our IBM z/OS environments. The role requires hands-on expertise with mainframe hardware, z/OS, JES2, TSO/ISPF, RACF, and batch scheduling.

You will drive maintenance, disaster recovery planning, and modernization efforts, ensuring high availability and performance for critical processes in a demanding enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years delivering IT infrastructure in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with IBM mainframe hardware and z/OS.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning and DR drills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support mainframe environments and batch workloads.
• Participate in capacity planning, tuning, and incident resolution for the mainframe stack.

Skills

Mainframe

Workload automation

Scheduler

Tools

z/OS

TSO/ISPF

Job description

Job Title: System Administrator

Work Location: CHENNAI, TN

Skills Required: MAINFRAME, WORKLOAD, SCHEULER

Experience: 5 -12 Years

Job Description:

• Solid experience (5+ years) in delivery roles within IT Infrastructure

Technical requirements

• Strong hands on IPL / POR procedures and Automation
• Good Knowledge in mainframe hardware and associated peripherals, z/OS, JES2, TSO / ISPF, DFSMS, VTAM, SMP/E, User Mods, RACF, HMC, HCD, and VTAM and commands
• Strong knowledge in RACF / ACF2 to audit the privileges
• Strong knowledge in IBM/ISV Utilities, Tools OMEGAMON, Mainview, Sysview
• Experience in DASD storage management and tools DFHSM, $AVRS and dispatch tools
• Strong knowledge in REXX, CLIST, JCL, OMVS, IBM Workload Scheduler, CA7
• Experience in disaster recovery setup and conducting DR drills.
• Mainframe Capacity Planning & Performance Tuning as per business needs
• Experience in Value-Add services, such as MIPS Optimization, Software rationalization,
  Specialty Engines
• Mainframe migration, Version Upgrade & Automation activities (REXX, CLIST, Assembler, other)
• Experience in handling complex escalated issues