Mainframe PCM System Administrator

Job Description

As a System Administrator at Kyndryl, you’ll solve complex problems and identify potential future issues across the spectrum of platforms and services. You’ll be at the forefront of new technology and modernization, working with some of our biggest clients – which means some of the biggest in the world.

Key Responsibilities

• As a System Administrator at Kyndryl, you’ll solve complex problems and identify potential future issues across the spectrum of platforms and services. You’ll be at the forefront of new technology and modernization, working with some of our biggest clients – which means some of the biggest in the world.
• Responsible for performance and tuning of mainframe environment, responsible for WLM (Workload Manager) administration, responsible for Thruput Manager administration, Responsible for technical assistance during performance issues, responsible for LPDEFs, responsible for setting up performance health checks, setting up weekly and monthly meetings with senior management and LOBs, building performance reporting with IzPCA, responsible for DASD tuning, responsible for IzPCA Administration etc..
• One of the benefits of Kyndryl is that we work with clients in a variety of industries, from banking to retail. Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your opportunity here. You’ll also get the chance to share your expertise by recommending modernization options, identifying new business opportunities, and cultivating relationships with other teams and stakeholders. Does the work get challenging at times? Yes! But you’ll collaborate with a diverse group of talented people and gain invaluable management and organizational skills, which will come in handy as you move forward in your career.

Your future at Kyndryl

Every position at Kyndryl offers a way forward to grow your career, from Junior System Administrator to Architect. We have opportunities for Cloud Hyperscalers that you won’t find anywhere else, including hands-on experience, learning opportunities, and the chance to certify in all four major platforms. One of the benefits of Kyndryl is that we work with clients in a variety of industries, from banking to retail. Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your opportunity here.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Must have 6 plus years of experience in the following areas:
• Experience with performance tuning of systems, practicing capacity planning activity during system up-gradation and pro-actively managing capacity planning on regular basis.
• Workload Manager (WLM) Administration and set up and Thruput Manager (TM) Administration and set up
• Clear understanding about SMF and analyzing and drawing insights from SMF data Processing.
• Performance tuning of JAVA, JES, CICS, DB2, IMS subsystems and z/OS operating system
• DASD Subsystem tuning
• Real-time monitoring by using BMC’s Mainview or IBM’s OMEGAMON
• SMF data processing by using MICS, MXG and SAS
• Able to extract data from TDS or IzPCA for performance analysis
• Hands on Experiences with navigation, debugging and monitoring with tools such as RMF(I, II, III) or Omegamon or TMON or BMC Mainview.
• Strobe Execution and analysis
• Able to manage LPDEFs, Group Caps, Hard Caps, Soft Caps & Absolute Capping etc..
• Capacity trending analysis and Workload Analysis with historical SMF data and making recommendations
• Mainframe Infrastructure performance analysis with historical SMF data to identify exceptions and issues and making recommendations to resolve
• Setting up Infrastructure health checks for monitoring systems, identifying exceptions, and resolving them before they impact our customers
• Experiences with tools such as CP3000, zPCR and zTPM are added advantage.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Expertise in utilizing tools like SAS, MICS, IZPCA, TDS,RMF (Resource Measurement Facility), WLM (Workload Manager), and other performance monitoring utilities.
• Large enterprise organizations relying heavily on mainframe systems for mission-critical applications.
• Collaborative work with other system programmers, application developers, and system operators to address performance issues.
• On-call responsibilities for resolving critical performance issues outside of regular working hours.