Systems Engineer (Mainframe) - Associate - Critical Services Support - IT - 12 months Contract (IBM Z)

Location: hirify.global - TKO, Hong Kong SAR; standard 40-hour work week

Company

hirify.global connects capital, ideas and innovation across Asia’s capital markets and supports their long-term development.

What you will do

• Support mission-critical IBM Z environments requiring high availability, high throughput and effective CPU-capacity management.
• Administer z/OS, Db2 for z/OS, CICS Transaction Server, IBM MQ, VTL and related distributed-platform services.
• Install, maintain, optimise and troubleshoot BMC AMI and Broadcom mainframe software, coordinating with vendors.
• Perform configuration, security setup, patching, upgrades, backup and recovery, performance tuning, stress testing and capacity planning.
• Provide database administration and implementation support while partnering with application, infrastructure, security and operations teams.
• Resolve incidents and recurring problems, manage changes and releases through ServiceNow, maintain controls and documentation, and advise on architecture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• At least 7 years of hands-on experience supporting IBM Z environments, including core operating system, database, transaction-processing and messaging technologies.
• Experience supporting mission-critical, high-availability and high-performance IBM Z platforms.
• Practical experience with system administration, troubleshooting, performance management, security controls, patching, upgrades, backup and recovery.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive, accountable and collaborative working style.
• Effective interpersonal, stakeholder-management, documentation and presentation skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with VTL architecture and third-party mainframe software for tape management, workload automation, software change management, storage management or application development.
• Experience supporting third-party mainframe storage-management or application-development software.
• Experience working within disciplined IT service management processes.

Culture & Benefits

• 12-month contract with a scheduled 40-hour work week.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity and respect for different perspectives, abilities, cultures and experiences.
• Work involves collaboration with application, infrastructure, information security, operations and vendor teams.