Senior Software Engineer (z/OS System Programming)

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Senior Software Engineer (z/OS System Programming)

Job Description

Broadcom's Mainframe Software Division (MSD) is looking for an excellent software engineer with a passion for building high quality applications using agile practices to join our development team.

Mainframe systems are at the heart of the digital economy, with 80% of the world's structured corporate data residing or originating on mainframes, and 55% of all enterprise applications hitting the mainframe to complete transactions. Our industry-leading products are critical to many Fortune 1000 companies.

We are expanding the team to work on the support and creation of demo, development and workshop environments and looking for exceptional candidates with strengths in z/OS system programming/ administration.

This position is responsible for supporting internal customers on z/OS, running on various environments LPAR, zVM, zDNT (hybrid cloud).

The Software Engineer 4 will perform zOS System programmer will have a strong focus on automating workloads. Other activities: z/OS system libraries customization, product installation, customization and maintenance, IPLs, problem analysis and resolution, customer problem analysis and resolution, system configuration support, security database administration, basic storage configuration, network definitions

The person in this role is expected to act as a technical mentor, advising, mentoring and coaching more junior engineers and partnering with stakeholders such as Product Owners, Solution Architects etc.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively within an Agile Team to analyze and translate business requirements and perform complex tasks independently to meet the Definition of Done.

• Identify areas of improvement, design and implement automation of system programmer workloads

• Support z/OS systems and it's customers

• Perform system customization, product installation and maintenance

• Contribute to team refinements; help to define solution/actions to take

• Actively communicate and collaborate within the team and across functional boundaries.

• Improve the overall skill level of the team by mentoring / teaching / coaching.

Requirements

• SDLC and Agile principles and methodologies.

• Excellent knowledge of z/OS operating system architecture, administration and operation z/OS and USS

• Knowledge of z/OS HW concepts

• Knowledge of z/OS software installation, customization and maintenance

• Knowledge of performance monitoring/ tuning

• Knowledge of DB2

• Knowledge of Storage concepts and configuration - DFHSM, DFSMS and DFDSS

• Knowledge of Networking concepts and configuration - VTAM, TCPIP

• Ability to work with RACF or TSS, ACF2

• Ability to create automation tools

• Good communication skills.

• Able to provide guidance to software engineers

• Knowledge/Experience of following is a plus

  • z/VM, zPDT, zDNT

  • Experience with CICS, MQ

  • Broadcom (CA Products)

  • ISV product installation, customization, license management

  • REXX

  • z/OSMF, ZOWE

  • TOMCAT

  • WAS

  • Certificates and TOKEN setup

  • Dump reading

Educational and experience requirements

• Bachelors + 2+ years of related experience.

• Or Masters degree

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.

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