System Engineer - JHB at FirstRand Group

Job Description

Hello Future Systems Engineer

Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.
As part of our talent team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

Are you someone who has experience in:

• 4 years Mainframe/ zOS experience
• Mainframe performance tuning and workload manager administration
• Mainframe capacity planning
• Ability to investigate and resolve relatively complex MVS/zOS incidents.
• Ability to plan and implement MVS maintenance slots.
• Ability to manage and implement all MVS related projects.
• A good understanding of the mainframe environment including hardware, z/OS operating system, storage environment.
• Good understanding of JCL.
• Thorough knowledge and experience of IBM utilities and 3rd Party products on the mainframes
• Experience and knowledge to zOS performance.
• Availability to do call-out.
• Availability to work maintenance slots.
• There may be a requirement for occasional travel to neighboring countries
• Own transport to work in different sites

Key Responsibilities:

• To provide specialist high-level technical advice high-level problem resolution of complex problems system security policy implementation monitoring
• Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness
• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions by resolving queries fast end effective
• Provide secondly level standby and complex problem resolution by interfacing with vendor support to resolve complex application and system configurations
• Provide specialist high-level technical advice for high-level problem resolution of complex problems by monitoring system security policy implementation.
• Assess, identify and mitigate potential risks within the IT system engineering environment and comply with governance in terms of legislative, audit and business policy requirements by drafting policies and procedures for the System Engineering Environment
• Manage systems by setting threshold measurements for capacity and infrastructure upgrades and suggest changes
• Manage the System Efficiencies by suggesting and implementing efficient system changes based on research of new and existing technology to align with business needs
• Set timeline and methodology for system, release upgrades and build test packs for regression testing. Access and implement patches and Fixes in test environment and migrate to live.