Administration/Production Control Technician

Orioninnovation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Orion Innovation is a premier global services firm delivering business transformation and product development across digital strategy, experience design, and engineering. The role focuses on monitoring job flows with CA Workload Automation DE, resolving failures, and coordinating production/test migrations.

The candidate should have 3–5 years in scheduling on Windows-based systems, strong mainframe tooling knowledge (z/OS JCL, TSO/ISPF), and experience with FTP/Connect Direct and PeopleSoft.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of scheduling experience with Windows-based scheduling systems.
• 5 years escalating and documenting critical job failures and schedule problems.
• 5 years of hands-on work with executing and performing preliminary troubleshooting activities involving: scheduler, batch processes, and cycle flows.

Responsibilities

• Monitor job flows controlled by CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries).
• Respond quickly to job failures by determining the cause and contacting on-call staff for remediation.
• Occasionally migrate software to production and/or test environments.
• Document problems, set up job flow dependencies, and troubleshoot test flows.

Skills

Production Control experience

Mainframe experience

Job dependencies

z/OS JCL

TSO/ISPF

FTPS/Connect Direct

Rational tools ClearQuest/ClearCase

UNIX experience

PuTTY/WinSCP

MS Word & Excel

PeopleSoft People Tools

Education

Baccalaureate degree (CS/Engineering)

Eight years related IT experience

Equivalent experience to 1 or 2 above

Tools

CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries)

GDGs

File-AID / IDCAMS

PeopleSoft Tools

z/OS utilities (JCL/TSO)

Connect Direct

PUTTY

WinSCP

Job description

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Job Description

Job Administration/Production Control Technician reporting to the night Shift Supervisor. This position is responsible for monitoring job flows controlled by the CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries) scheduling system. The jobs being run executed on either a z/OS mainframe, UNIX, or PeopleSoft server. The position preferably requires knowledge of tools and utilities that run under z/OS, PeopleSoft, and/ or UNIX. The technician must be able to respond quickly to job failures by determining the general cause of the problem and contacting the appropriate on-call staff member for remediation. The candidate will also be required to occasionally migrate software to the production and/or test environments. Other duties included documenting problems, setting up job flow dependencies, and executing/troubleshooting test flows.

Preferred Skills

• Extensive experience working in Production Control with mainframe or mid-range computer Familiarity with establishing job dependencies
• Experience troubleshooting JCL errors, using GDGs, and utilities such as File-AID and IDCAMS Knowledge of CA Workload Automation DE or similar enterprise scheduling package
• Knowledge of z/OS JCL and TSO/ISPF
• Experience with mainframe compile, link, and bind procedures
• Familiarity with file transfer protocols such as FTPS and/or Connect: Direct
• Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills. Strong understanding of standard SDLC methodologies
• Knowledge of IMS, D82 Knowledge of UNIX
• Knowledge of PUTTY, WinSCP
• Familiarity with Rational Tools (ClearQuest and ClearCase) Familiarity with MS-Word and Excel
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft People Tools (Process Monitor)

Experience

• 3 - 5 years of related scheduling experience with a Windows-based scheduling system.
• 5 years' experience escalating and documenting critical job failures and schedule problems.
• 5 years of experience with hands-on work with executing and performing preliminary troubleshooting activities involving: scheduler, batch processes, and cycle flows.

Minimum Qual Requirements

1. A baccalaureate degree froman accredited college in computer science, engineering or a related field and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to information technology service management, process management, operations;
2. A baccalaureate degree froman accredited college and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to information technology service management, process management, operations
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalentto "1" or"2"above..

Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.