AppSierra Solutions - Mainframe Scheduler - Control-M (6-20 yrs)

Responsibilities :

- Develop and maintain job schedules in the mainframe environment.

- Monitor job execution, identifying and resolving any issues that arise during processing.

- Work closely with development teams to ensure jobs are aligned with business priorities and requirements.

- Optimize job schedulers for performance and resource utilization.

- Create and maintain documentation related to job scheduling procedures and configurations.

- Provide support and troubleshooting for scheduling-related incidents in a timely manner.

- Conduct regular system audits to ensure compliance with scheduling policies and best practices.

Requirements :

- Proven experience with mainframe scheduling tools (e.g., CA-7, Control-M) and technologies.

- Strong understanding of mainframe operating systems and job processing workflows.

- Experience in troubleshooting and resolving technical issues in mainframe environments.

- Excellent analytical skills with a focus on optimization and efficiency.

- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate effectively.

- Attention to detail and strong organizational skills to manage multiple priorities.

- Perform permanent changes like Add / Remove jobs to Scheduler.

- Good Knowledge on TWS tool.

- Add or remove job dependencies in Scheduler.

- Build and maintain Scheduler frequencies and calendars.

- Create and Maintain DSN Trigger Jobs and Rules

- Ability to investigate job sysouts.

- Knowledge in Scheduler Logs and Syslog to find out the issue.

- Scheduler resource create, modify and delete.

- Verify scheduling, rerun or restart information.

- Provide weekend support in bringing up Scheduler.

- Provide support for Control product testing. (when MVS does upgrades - make sure the Scheduler is working)

- Provide technical assistance for all Scheduler related issues (7/24 - Support)

- Perform as Level 2 support for all scheduling issues and provide resolution 24x7

- Review daily Operations Log reports for abends. For any reoccurring abends the support reps must be notified and get the issues resolved.

- Monthly Batch Metrics reporting Knowledge.

- Create and Maintain Scheduler job documentation.

Disaster Recovery :

- Attend all Disaster Recovery Planning meetings leading up to actual exercise.

- Build the Scheduler batch(s) schedules for Disaster Recovery exercise.

- Load Scheduler schedule(s) for Disaster Recovery purposes.

- Work directly with Customer and DR team during the actual DR to execute batch.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.