The Financial Information Services Agency and the Office of Payroll Administration (FISA-OPA) has a vacancy for a Job Administration/Production Control Technician reporting to the night shift supervisor. This position is responsible for monitoring job flows controlled by the CA Workload Automation DE (dSeries) scheduling system. The jobs being run execute on either a z/OS mainframe, UNIX or PeopleSoft server. The position preferably requires knowledge of tools and utilities that run under z/OS, PeopleSoft, and/ or UNIX. The technician must be able to respond quickly to job failures by determining the general cause of the problem and contacting the appropriate on-call staff member for remediation. The candidate will also be required to occasionally migrate software to the production and/or test environments. Other duties included documenting problems, setting up job flow dependencies, and executing/troubleshooting test flows.

1. A baccalaureate degree in computer science, engineering or a related field from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to IT automation engineering, monitoring engineering, management of infrastructure; or

2. Eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to IT automation engineering, monitoring engineering, management of infrastructure;

3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above.

- Extensive experience working in Production Control with mainframe or mid-range computer. - Familiarity with establishing job dependencies. - Experience troubleshooting JCL errors, using GDGs, and utilities such as File-AID and IDCAMS. - Knowledge of CA Workload Automation DE or similar enterprise scheduling package. - Knowledge of z/OS JCL and TSO/ISPF. - Experience with mainframe compile, link, and bind procedures. - Familiarity with file transfer protocols such as FTPS and/or Connect:Direct. - Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills. - Strong understanding of standard SDLC methodologies. - Knowledge of IMS, DB2. - Knowledge of UNIX. - Knowledge of PUTTY, WinSCP. - Familiarity with Rational Tools (ClearQuest and ClearCase). - Familiarity with MS-Word and Excel. - Knowledge of PeopleSoft People Tools (Process Monitor). Experience: - 3 - 5 years of related scheduling experience with a Windows-based scheduling system. - 5 years’ experience escalating and documenting critical job failures and schedule problems. - 5 years of experience with hands-on work with executing and performing preliminary troubleshooting activities involving: scheduler, batch processes, and cycle flows.

New York City Residency is not required for this position.

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