Overview
Skills
Job Details
The Financial Information Services Agency (FISA) has a vacancy for a Job Admin Analyst. Reporting directly to FISA's Financial Systems Job Administration Director, the candidate will be responsible for the submission of jobs in production and test environments, tracking of the status of submitted jobs, escalation to Level 2 support during failure scenarios as well as additional tasks related to the creation and continued enhancement of financial system job schedules. The Job Admin Analyst will perform Tier 1 production support for FMS/3 supported production applications as well as Tier 1 support for the FMS/2 Budget support. Said applications reside on UNIX and IBM Mainframe platforms. The suite of applications supported, includes, but is not limited to the following enterprise systems: PIP, IFA, City Wide Accounting and FMS Budget. Job Administration duties span FISA's mainframe and UNIX platforms.
Responsibilities include
The primary tool(s) used by the candidate will be the desktop based tool- CA Workload Automation (aka d-series). The candidate will run batch job streams via the CA Workload Automation (d-series), and must understand and be able to verify job condition codes for validations. The candidate will interact with all support groups in problem determination and resolutions. The work will be performed in multiple development and test environments and on production systems and the candidate will be expected to differentiate job streams and prioritize workloads as directed. The candidate will be expected to gain a deep understanding of the interaction between the IBM mainframe and the various AIX Servers (and the various intra system job relationships). Additional tools used on a day to day basis as part of their job duties include: CA-Agents, CA-Adapter, Microsoft Outlook, ClearQuest, and Attachmate to access IBM Mainframe z/OS, RMDS to access mainframe reports, putty and winscp to access AIX Operating systems. The primary applications supported are Enterprise wide financial applications - but the other business systems may be supported as directed.
PREFERRED SKILLS
Demonstrated ability to monitor the health of running of job flows (e.g., stalled/late flows or batch job condition codes) using the CA Workload Automation Id-series, or comparable Scheduling Automation Software
Ability to schedule and process ad hoc requests in AIX and mainframe environments as requested - using the tools above
Demonstrated ability to learn the CA Workload Automation/ d-series tools
Candidate should have in-depth knowledge of the IBM Mainframe, z/OS Processes, such as JCL; IBM UTILITIES; working knowledge of ISPF
The candidate will be expected to have knowledge of the UNIX Shell scripting and debugging capabilities.
Strong diagnostic and problem solving skills
Ability to plan, manage and work independently with minimal direction
Process Backups/Restores as required
Helpful to have experience with Advantage Financial applications
5 years' experience working on AIX/Unix and mainframe platforms running and monitoring critical production batch processes
5 years of experience with hands-on work with executing and performing preliminary troubleshooting activities involving: scheduler, batch processes, and cycle flow
5 years' experience escalating and documenting critical job failures and schedule problems
HOURS/DAYS
07:30 am - 08:00 pm. 3 days per week w/ additional rotating Sunday shift every 4 weeks.