Systems Programmer

Company Profile

As a global financial services firm, Morgan Stanley is committed to technological innovation. We rely on our technologists around the world to create leading-edge, secure platforms for all our business.

Department Overview
Enterprise Technology & Services (ETS) delivers shared technology services for Morgan Stanley supporting all business applications and end users. ETS provides capabilities for all stages of Morgan Stanley’s software development lifecycle, enabling productive coding, functional and integration testing, application releases, and ongoing monitoring and support for over 3,000 production applications. ETS also delivers all workplace technologies (desktop, mobile, voice, video, productivity, intranet/internet) in integrated configurations that boost the personal productivity of employees. Application and end user functions are delivered on a scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure composed of seamlessly integrated datacenter, network, compute, cloud, storage, and database functions.

Our Team
Mainframe Computing (MC) is a technology enabler for the business by providing a strong, resilient, and stable platform to host and enable business innovation/growth in our lines of business and global locations. MC consists of experienced administration, operations and engineering staff required to support the platform. In addition to flexible hours, the Firm enables its staff to work remotely. The mainframe engineers work with the latest hardware and software technologies. The IBM z platform and the mainframe disk and tape technologies are frequently refreshed across our datacenters.

Job Description:
The Systems Programmer is responsible for monitoring and evaluation of all aspects of z-platform performance, including investigation of CPU utilization, Coupling Facility activity, database, application, and Storage performance issues, as well as the monitoring, support, maintenance, and enhancement of all aspects of the z-platform DASD storage & tape environment. The candidate will work closely within a team of storage, programming, performance, and hardware engineers, to provide technical support for all processing and storage management related projects and activities. The candidate will act as a liaison with application and other infrastructure teams on all technical matters related to systems performance and storage management.

Skills Required:

• Advanced experience as a Systems Programming and Performance Engineer / Capacity Planner / Storage Engineer managing Mainframe Processing, Storage / DASD & Tape, in a multi CEC, multi LPAR, multi SYSPLEX, z-platform environment.
• Expert Level knowledge of z/OS internals, z/OS system software, IBM Utilities, JES, ISPF, JCL, DADSM, ICF Catalogs, VSAM, VSAM/RLS, Mainframe Security, Data Replication, SMF data collection and reporting, Data transfer - Connect Direct/NDM/ftp, zLINUX.
• Knowledge of the following: IBM mainframe, Internal and External Coupling Facility, IBM and EMC DASD storage and tape subsystems
• Configure vendor software as outlined in their technical instructions for software applications and the operating system
• Excellent testing and reporting skills
• Experience with design of tests to validate software functionality, robustness, performance, as well as environmental health and stability
• Experience with real time trouble shooting of performance issues in a z/OS environment
• Advanced skills in one or more of the following: SAS, REXX, SQL
• Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
• Strong experience with SMS(DFSMS), DFHSM, DFDSS, RMM
• Knowledge of IBM DS8K, TS77* and EMC VMAX/PowerMax family hardware.
• Strong written and verbal English language communication skills.
• The ability to effectively interface with hardware and software vendors.
• Weekend work and on-call coverage is required.

Skills desired:

• Strong knowledge of IBM Workload Manager (WLM), RMF Monitor III, RMF Post Processor, RMF Performance Data Portal, Omegamon, Epilog, Ca-MICS, TDS/IzPCA, COGNOS, Ca-SYSVIEW, Ironstream, SPLUNK, DVM
• Advanced use of SAS, MXG, CA-MICS, REXX, and SQL
• Experience with CA-Sysview
• Experience with SyncSort
• Familiarity with SPLUNK Reporting, Ironstream, DVM
• Familiarity with IBM Tivoli Decision Support (TDS), IzPCA, COGNOS
• Familiarity with IBM SCRT (IBM Country Wide Multiplex Pricing (CMP), Tailored Fit Pricing (TFP) a plus)
• Experience with tuning an environment with Natural/Adabas, COBOL
• Familiarity with IBM Allocation Optimizer, Ca-Allocate, Ca-Vantage(SAMS), FDR/ABR, zEDC Compression, Catalog Recovery Plus/Advanced Catalog Management(ACM)
• Knowledge of IBM TS7000 and Dell/EMC DLm virtual tape, RMM, TLMS
• Experience with mainframe data replication and migration software and technology from IBM (Global Mirror, Copy Services Manager (CSM) a plus) and EMC (SRDF/A, GDDR, Autoswap a plus), FDRPAS
• Familiarity with data migration and hardware refresh techniques.
• Familiarity with site swap and disaster recovery testing and procedures.
• Familiarity with Dell/EMC UNISPHERE
• Working knowledge of IDCAMS, IBM DS CLI, Perl, .NET
• Understanding of SMF record types as related to data statistics, RMF reporting