Mainframe Production Deployment Integrator

Mainframe Production Deployment Integrator

- You will work in a team who is in charge of integrating new applications into the 24 hours a day mission critical production cycle.
- You review, in close collaboration with experts (system engineers, Middleware engineers, architects), the technical designs produced by the application developers. You focus on the production aspects: control, monitoring, performance, availability, reliability of the application.
- You analyse, implement and deploy the integration of the application in the production.
- You address the following topics: scheduling, monitoring, backup, alerting, definition of application objects: MQ Series Queues and DB2 tables.

ROLE:

1)
- Integrate applications within the production environment.
- For new or re-worked applications, design (analyse the impacts of a new/modified application on the production environment) and implement the following topics in the production environment:
- Map the applications on the physical production topology. For the Mainframe systems, this concerns the design of batch chains and on-line systems
- Application Backup and Recovery
- Application Monitoring and Alert Management
- Application Scheduling and Control
- Production Operations readiness: Operational Procedures (stop, start, restart, operation scheduling, control system, rerun), Operational Documentation, Operational Tools
- Participate to testing strategy and provide test cases to validate the production acceptance criteria

2)
- Deploy applications within test and production environments
- Launch applications in test and production environments
- Train Production Operations staff to applications' operational procedures, documentation and tools

PROFILE:

Technical skills:

- Overall MVS knowledge (TSO, JCL, PL/1, Cobol, DB2, CICS, MQSeries, ISPF,...)
- CA-7, Cortex
- REXX, ISPF development expertise
- Enterprise Output System, file transfer protocols,
- Production Integration methods (CA7 scheduling, backup, control, unattended production, monitoring...)

You are:

- Structured, organized, quality minded
- Team player
- Communicates clearly and openly
- Service-minded
- Fluent in English. French and/or Dutch are an asset