Infrastructure Engineer Ii - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers
Description
Role - Infrastructure EngineerLocation - Bromley
The Team
There are 4 team managers who provide focus, oversight, management of key factors supporting our success (compliance, governance, initiatives, security, architecture, contingency, standardization, and QA processes and tooling).
The four team managers work collaborativelyas an extension of the technical manager, to ensure that they each have clear view of the entire team and that the team works cohesively to meet our goals.
The individual team members have varying experience ranging from 6 to more than 40 years working with the IBM z/OS environment.
While the individuals are aligned under the four managers, they work cohesively as a team. They all participate in duty rotationssuch as on-call, build / deploy and disaster recovery exercise support.Individuals product support assignments can change to meet not only the needs of the team use, but the individual, to develop both their technical and behavioral or management skills.
The primary mindset for success in OSS-PPE is that we are a team and we are here to support each other and maintain the professional reputation of the team.
The technical manager's role is to protect, defend and grow his team, which can only succeed when theteam behaves and executes in a manner to empower the technical manager.
Key is risk awareness and adherence to policies and procedures to avoid unforeseen impact to our customers.The technical manager looks for and encourages his team to be aware of long range opportunities for process and compliance improvement.
This can result in efforts to drive out variation, through simplification, standardization and tooling to support and accelerateour processes.The team has served as a model for others in its process, tooling and approach toward its responsibilities.
It has seen other engineering teams use the OSS-PPE tooling and approaches for such items as inventory management, distribution control, automated healthchecks and validation, and identification of emerging vulnerabilities.
Skills and ExperienceInformation Technology degree and/or technology certifications preferred or substantial equivalent experience.
Required:
- Strong understanding and possess working knowledge of IBM Mainframe z/OS operating system, control, structure, logic, security.
- Experience with IBM z/OS system and subsystem software and components with experience to support, develop and enhance tools and methodologies for managing large scale global deployment. Must be proficient with problem determination, analysis and resolution.
- Extensive understanding of IBM zEnterprise server hardware and facilities
- Strong knowledge and experience with SMP/E, JES2, JCL, ISPF dialog management, REXX.
- Experience with wide range of IBM and ISV product and vendor installation support tools
Preferred:
- Experience with System Automation, Performance Monitoring, Communication Server, CICS, DB2, IMS, WMQ, Batch Scheduling, Change Management, Storage Management, ISPF dialog development, HTML.
- SMP/E
- Planning for z/OS
- z/OS Configuration and Customization
- z/OS Maintenance Best Practices
- z Systems Hardware / Architecture
- Parallel Sysplex Clustering
- TSO / ISPF / USS
- Job Control Language (JCL)
- Batch and JES2 / JES
- Security (SAF)
- Workload Manger (WLM)
- Transaction Management
- Database Management
- Networking (Communications Server)
- WebSphere Messaging and Queuing
- HTTP Server
- WebSphere Application Server
- Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery
Every day, across the globe, our employees bring a commitment to our purpose and to driving responsible growth by living our values: deliver together, act responsibly, realize the power of our people and trust the team.
A key aspect of driving responsible growthis doing so in a sustainable manner, a critical pillar of which is being a great place to work for our teammates.
In line with these values, in EMEA we have 9 Employee Networks, a wide range of Sports & Social clubs, and other development and networking opportunities so that you can enjoy a range of experiences and connect with colleagues across the bank.
We also offerexclusive discounts to some of the most iconic cultural experiences for you to enjoy in your spare time outside of work.
Learn more about our benefits here.Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success.
It's important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk.
Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are thecornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.
As part of our standard hiring process to manage risk, please note background screening checks will be conducted on all hires before commencing employment.
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