Operations Analyst - Production, IBM Mainframes, Bank, Brussels

Operations Analyst - Production, IBM Mainframes, Bank, Brussels

Objective:
To join a team responsible for integrating new applications into the 24 hours a day mission critical production cycle.

Tasks:
Review (together with experts, system engineers, Middleware engineers, architects), the technical designs produced by the Application Developers.
Your focus is on the production aspects: control, monitoring, performance, availability, reliability of the application.
Analyse, implement and deploy the integration of the application in the production paying attention to scheduling, monitoring, backup, alerting, definition of application objects: MQ Series Queues and DB2 tables.

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 in the 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 the applications' operational procedures, documentation and tools

Skills:
MVS, TSO, JCL, PL/1, Cobol, DB2, CICS, MQSeries, ISPF;
CA-7, Cortex, REXX;
Enterprise Output System, file transfer protocols;
Production Integration methods (CA7 scheduling, backup, control, unattended production, monitoring etc.).
Language: English.