Job Description

Technology is integral to helping our clients reach their personal goals at Vanguard.  We depend on a stable and reliable IT infrastructure to run our investors assets 24 X 7.  That puts your expertise in IT Systems at the heart of our business.  As a Mainframe Engineer, you will provide leadership and technical guidance for complex projects ensuring a reliable operation of the production environment.  You will have ownership of all monitoring, troubleshooting, and installation of software/tools within a highly available environment utilizing multiple LPARs.  Responsibilities will include the planning and coordination of enterprise-wide IT infrastructure projects.

Job qualifications:

• Strong understanding of z/OS and major sub-systems such as JES2, TCP/IP, RRS, & USS
• Provide engineering and lead support of a multi-LPAR SYSPLEX environment
• Strong troubleshooting, vendor coordination, and application teams coordination
• Strong knowledge of JCL, TSO, ISPF, & SDSF
• Strong knowledge of System initialization and tuning: PARMLIB
• Strong knowledge in SMP/E
• Good knowledge and understanding of Disaster Recovery
• Experience installing products from a wide range of vendors such as IBM, Broadcom, ASG, and BMC
• Experience using IBM Utilities, Batch Jobs, Procs
• Plan hardware and software system upgrades and changes
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Optional qualifications:

• Understanding of ACF2
• Dell/EMC disk storage systems
• Dell/EMC disaster recovery SRDF across multiple data centers

What it takes:

• A bachelors degree in information technology or equivalent experience
• z/OS (SYSPLEX) installation and administration
• Ability to quickly identify and resolve system problems
• z/OS performance monitoring, reporting and tuning
• z/OS Networking (TCPIP, VTAM)
• CA Operations products
• Ability to engage and work with the proper technical areas and vendors
• Ability to think analytically, work independently and make decisions objectively
• Knowledge of mainframe DASD administration is preferred
• Experience with z/OS Automation/Scheduling