Senior z/OS Systems Administrator | Long Term Contract | Remote(EST/CST)

Title: Z/os System Administrator Location: Remote Type: Long Term Contract Rate: $Open/hr. Requirements Key Responsibilities - Install, configure, maintain, and support IBM z/OS operating systems and related system software. - Perform z/OS upgrades, maintenance, system modifications, and lifecycle management. - Provide advanced administration and troubleshooting of z/OS environments. - Use SMP/E (System Modification Program/Extended) extensively for installation, maintenance, upgrades, PTFs, APARs, HOLDDATA processing, and management of IBM and third-party software. - Analyze SMP/E environments, zones, CSI datasets, SYSMODs, and maintenance requirements. - Develop and maintain REXX scripts to automate z/OS administration, monitoring, reporting, maintenance, and operational processes. - Identify manual processes that can be improved through REXX-based automation. - Administer and support IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF). - Configure and maintain z/OSMF services, workflows, plugins, and system management functions. - Utilize z/OSMF for system management, configuration, monitoring, and automation. - Perform system problem determination, root-cause analysis, and resolution of complex z/OS issues. - Monitor system performance, availability, capacity, and overall system health. - Work with operations, application, storage, network, security, and database teams to resolve mainframe infrastructure issues. - Participate in system upgrades, migrations, disaster recovery testing, and infrastructure modernization initiatives. - Maintain system documentation, operating procedures, configuration standards, and technical runbooks. - Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other mainframe systems administrators. - Participate in production support and on-call activities as required. Benefits If Interested please send your updated resume to:rehana.j@two95intl.comand include your rate/Salary requirement along with your contact details with a suitable time when we can reach you. If you know of anyone in your sphere of contacts, who would be a perfect match for this job then, we would appreciate if you can forward this posting to them with a copy to us. We look forward to hearing from you at the earliest