Application Support-Midrange

For one of our clients, Rendeck Automatisering is looking for an experienced Application Supporter Midrange.

Start: ASAP.
Duration: 31-12-2013 with possible extension
Location: Amstelveen
Deployment: Full time
Rate: Market rate

NOTE:
Deadline: 14-06
Please send us your CV including a covering letter (covering the job requirements), your rate, availability and any holiday plans that you might have!

Experience:
MULTIPLE YEARS OF EXPERIENCES IN A COMPLEX (BANKING) APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT AS AN APPLICATION SUPPORTER. EXPERIENCE WITH WINTEL, AIX USING ORACLE, POWERCENTER AND SQL AND SOME MAINFRAME USING IMS, DB2, AND WEBSPHERE MQ (BOTH MIDRANGE AND MAINFRAME BASED)

Jobrole (Main Tasks):
* Production Support
o Solving incidents with limited timeframes and under pressure
o BAU - monitoring incident queues and team mail box, etc.
o Troubleshooting (both Windows and Unix Applications)
o Troubleshooting Basic Shell Scripting
o Troubleshooting Java programming
o Implementation (deploying) in PR environment outside the official working hours
* Project Support
o Consultancy
o Deployments for testing purposes.
o Participation/perform pre production tests
o Deliver support during testing (incident solving)
o Deployments to a production site
o Support during implementation
* Acceptance
o Secure operational aspects
o Give go/no go advice for implementation
* Second line support during and outside business hours (24/7 stand-by)
o Solve incidents
o Creating/updating maintenance documentation
o Creating/updating/improving Helpdesk scripts
o Creating/updating/improving Operator instructions
o Knowledge Maintenance (documentation, providing training)

Skills:
* Proven UNIX (AIX & Linux) skills and experience in a complex (virtualized) environment
* Proven Windows (Windows server versions) skills and experience in a complex (virtualized) environment
* Mainframe experience in a complex environment
* Experience with IBM WebSphere applications (Back Office applications)
* Experience with OPC & JCL
* Experience using:
o HTML
o Networking TCP/IP
o Universal Command
o Oracle RDBMS ver.9/10/11
o DB2 Midrange
o MQ/DB2 Connect
o MS SQL/MySQL RDBMS
o Powercenter and SAP Business Objects
o PRISMA (Peregrine Service Centre)
* Financial Banking knowledge
* Excellent communication skills, both speaking and writing English
* Testing applications (Multiplatform and/or chained applications)
* Flexible team player
* Pro-active attidude and nature
* ITIL concepts
* To be able to work under the pressure and tight schedules
* Willing to work from time to time outside the official working hours

Rendeck Automatisering is one of fastest growing service providers with many of the top 25 companies in the Netherlands as our clients.