Browse thousands of opportunities across our network of innovative companies
Principal Technical Consultant, Mainframe Data Integration
Precisely
IT
India
Posted on Friday, April 19, 2024
Precisely is the leader in data integrity. We empower businesses to make more confident decisions based on trusted data through a unique combination of software, data enrichment products and strategic services. What does this mean to you? For starters, it means joining a company focused on delivering outstanding innovation and support that helps customers increase revenue, lower costs and reduce risk. In fact, Precisely powers better decisions for more than 12,000 global organizations, including 99 of the Fortune 100. Precisely's 2500 employees are unified by four company core values that are central to who we are and how we operate: Openness, Determination, Individuality, and Collaboration. We are committed to career development for our employees and offer opportunities for growth, learning and building community. With a "work from anywhere" culture, we celebrate diversity in a distributed environment with a presence in 30 countries as well as 20 offices in over 5 continents. Learn more about why it's an exciting time to join Precisely!
Intro and job overview:
Collaborate with internal and customer teams, to install, configure and implement latest technology solutions to capture and forward logging and application data on the IBM z systems and IBM i systems to cloud or other on prem systems. Configure, integrate and develop visualizations and alerts for Splunk or other Security and ITOA systems and discovery, service mapping and event management for ServiceNow platforms. Provide external customers expertise on mainframe and IBM i operational data and systems as they integrate the forwarded data to downstream systems.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Install and configure Precisely software on IBM z systems and IBM I systems.
- Educate customers and assist with presales demos and proof of concepts on Precisely offerings and technology as well as mainframe and IBM i operations.
- Integrate and configure discovered data, event management rule and service mapping rules in ServiceNow.
- Configure and develop visualizations and alerts for mainframe and IBM i log data in Splunk, Elastic/Kibana/Grafana, etc.
- Collaborate with internal teams to assist and educate on challenges or needs to help evolve Precisely technology.
- Scope and assist in the development of statement of works for professional services engagements.
- Assist in the testing and data validation of DB2, VSAM, IMS and sequential data replication to cloud or distributed systems.
- Install and configure software on Linux and Windows systems.
- Configure IMS to DB2 data and data type mappings in Precisely technology.
Requirements and Qualifications:
- Must have at least 15 years of experience in systems level administration and or programming on the IBM z platform in various technologies, like DB2, IMS, VSAM, CICS, MQ, etc.
- Must be willing to work regularly up to 2pm EST US business hours.
- Experience interpreting mainframe and IBM i machine data including SMF, RMF III, syslog, journal logs and other.
- Administered DB2 and or IMS databases on the IBM z platform.
- Experience with installing and troubleshooting mainframe and IBM I software.
- Experience working on a distributed platform like Linux and Windows.
- Experience with visualization technologies like Splunk or Kibana and CMDB technologies like ServiceNow.
Experience in mainframe and IBM I systems analysis or performance and capacity analysis and planning. - Experience with programming or analysis in multiple of the following technologies:
- SQL
- JCL and REXX programming
- C/C++
- UNIX scripting
- Regular expression processing
- XML
#LI-SR1
It is a requirement for all roles at Precisely to adhere to applicable data privacy and security laws, rules, regulations, and company policies. For more information about Precisely’s privacy practices, please see our Privacy Notice: https://www.precisely.com/legal/privacy-notice.