JOB SUMMARY
UNIVERSAL Technologies LLC is seeking an experienced Production Control Technician for an onsite position in New York NY reporting to the night Shift Supervisor Active LinkedIn preferred 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 zOS mainframe UNIX or PeopleSoft server The position requires knowledge of tools and utilities that run under zOS PeopleSoft and or UNIX Schedule 3 day work week consisting of consecutive days including weekends and holidays Hours are 730 am 800 pm The schedule rotates every four weeks between MondayWednesday and ThursdaySaturday Must be able to work for any US employer.
WHO WE ARE
UNIVERSAL Technologies LLC is a Women Owned MWBE IT solutions and consulting company delivering enterprise systems and professional services across Application Development BusinessSystemsData Analysis Project Management Cyber Security Data Analytics InfrastructureNetwork Engineering and High Level Systems Architecture
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive compensationHealth Dental and Vision InsuranceGroup Life Insurance401kHSAFSAPre Tax Transportation BenefitsGenerous PTO and Holiday Benefits
MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
- Bachelors degree from an accredited college in Computer Science Engineering or a related field and four 4 years of satisfactory full time experience related to information technology service management process management or operations
- a Bachelors degree from an accredited college and eight 8 years of satisfactory full time experience related to information technology service management process management or operations
- An equivalent combination of education and experience35 years of related scheduling experience utilizing a Windows based scheduling system5 years of experience escalating and documenting critical job failures and scheduling problems5 years of hands on experience executing and performing preliminary troubleshooting involving schedulers batch processes and cycle flowsExtensive Production Control experience within mainframe andor mid range computing environmentsExperience establishing and maintaining job dependenciesExperience with enterprise workload scheduling systems such as CA Workload Automation DE dSeries or a comparable scheduling platformKnowledge of zOS JCL and TSOISPFExperience troubleshooting JCL errorsExperience utilizing Generation Data Groups GDGsExperience with mainframe utilities such as File AID and IDCAMSExperience with mainframe compile link and bind proceduresKnowledge of UNIX environmentsKnowledge of PeopleSoft and PeopleSoft PeopleTools including Process MonitorFamiliarity with file transfer protocols and utilities such as FTPS andor ConnectKnowledge of PuTTY and WinSCPKnowledge of IMS and DB2Familiarity with Rational tools including ClearQuest and ClearCaseFamiliarity with Microsoft Word and ExcelStrong understanding of standard Software Development Life Cycle SDLC methodologiesExcellent oral and written communication skillsStrong interpersonal organizational analytical and problem solving skillsAbility to respond quickly to production job failures determine the general cause of an issue and appropriately upscale problems to on call technical staff
- Ability and willingness to work a rotating 3 day schedule consisting of consecutive days from 730 am to 800 pm including weekends and holidays
- Schedule rotation consists of four weeks working Monday through Wednesday followed by four weeks working Thursday through Saturday
SCOPE OF SERVICES
- Monitor production job flows controlled by the CA Workload Automation DE dSeries scheduling system
- Monitor jobs executing across zOS mainframe UNIX and PeopleSoft server environments
- Respond quickly to failed production jobs and determine the general cause of failures
- Contact and coordinate with the appropriate on call technical staff for problem remediation and resolution
- Perform preliminary troubleshooting of scheduler issues batch processes job failures and cycle flows
- Monitor and manage job dependencies within scheduled production workflows
- Set up and maintain job flow dependencies
- Execute and troubleshoot test job flows
- Escalate critical job failures and scheduling problems as appropriate
- Document production problems failures troubleshooting activities and resolutions
- Occasionally migrate software into production andor test environments
- Assist with production control activities involving mainframe UNIX PeopleSoft and related enterprise systems
- Support the continued stability and successful execution of critical scheduled production workloads
UNIVERSAL Technologies is an equal opportunity employer