Mainframe Batch Operations

Key Responsibilities:

• You will be joining 24 7 mainframe Operations Center team responsible for end to end monitoring of Mainframe Batch Operations in Nordik Bank
• Our goal is to ensure business processes are met via batch schedules as per the requirements of the respective development areas
• We also strive to optimize and make our organization effective by driving value addition initiatives
• You will collaborate closely with the Developers across the bank and infrastructure teams and there is an opportunity to upskill your technical
• Skills and competencies for Batch Operations
• Monitoring batch jobs and scheduling using IWS OPC
• Interacting with the clients and different teams on daily basis
• Coordinating with application team for any issues during the batch cycles for applications
• Understanding applications critical deadline times and have the zeal to fix batch failures within SLA
• Resolution of abends restart mark complete cancel jobs analyzing late jobs etc through OPC scheduler
• Participating in Major incident bridge calls
• Handle all meetings and discussions regarding implementations and changes
• Preparing reports and documents
• Adhoc request to Schedule particular jobs applications and periods in OPC
• Taking care of each production batch job abends by following operator instructions and escalating to appropriate support group if required
• Providing immediate Fixes and submitting the jobs
• Investigation of long running jobs
• Changing the Priorities and the Service Classes of the Regions job if required
• Additional skills which can be an added advantage
• Performing mainframe console operations system health checks
• Perform IPL on all the LPARs during maintenance window and troubleshooting during the IPL
• Replying to WTOR s referring to process documents
• Handling the hardware related issues raising the service request with the h w provider
• Perform IPL on all the LPARs during maintenance window and troubleshooting during the IPL
• Handling resource contentions and taking actions for alerts on production system
• Performing DR Tests
• Attending daily huddle and change meetings
• Enabling the Transactions through automation and commands as well
• Knowledge of HMC tool

Technical Requirements:

• Batch Operations
• Mainframe Batch Operations

Preferred Skills:

Technology->Infrastructure-Mainframes->Operations and Scheduling->Batch monitoring