Senior Systems Programmer Job at a Glance Title: Senior Systems Programmer Location: Remote, EST Only Contract: W2 only Pay: $49 /hour + optional medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match

Overview

Write or debug programs to maintain and control computer systems software, such as operating systems, networked systems, and database systems. Provide technical and disaster recovery expertise for systems software.

Key Responsibilities

• Write or debug programs to maintain and control computer systems software, such as operating systems, networked systems, and database systems. Provide technical and disaster recovery expertise for systems software.
• Diagnose, isolate, and debug software problems and perform problem resolution. Identify issues that the vendor is responsible for and refer those issues appropriately.
• Coordinate installation, testing, and maintenance of systems software. Schedule system downtime in a way that minimizes user impact.
• Review customer requests, security patches, and audit requirements for additions or changes to systems, and evaluate feasibility to determine if/how to handle the request while maintaining an adequate/appropriate overall systems infrastructure. To determine if requested changes are possible, review system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Cross train in all areas of systems programming in order to efficiently perform on-call rotation.
• Provide technical and disaster recovery support for systems software.

Required Skills

• JCL - Required
• Mainframe/host experience - required
• IBM z/OS MQ mainframe – required
• Experience creating/maintaining a queue manager and queues – required (this requirement is VERY important)
• Standard hours - 8-4:30pm Monday - Friday. Overtime, on call, weekends, and off hours as needed once fully trained.
• Resolving test and production issues that arise.
• Working on customer requests such as creating a new queues, queue manager & changing queue depth.
• Working on multiple projects ranging from installing the latest release of MQ to configuring MQ on servers.
• Working with error reports and handling multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Internal monitoring such as checking queue depth.

Required Education

• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other job-related field, or
• 4 years of job-related work experience, or
• 2 years of job-related experience plus an associate’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other job-related degree.

Preferred Skills

• CICS – desired
• IBM Websphere MQ – desired
• Cobol – desired
• Unix & zlinux – nice to have
• Currently working with MQ version 9.3

Why Should I Apply? This role offers the opportunity to work on critical systems programming projects with a focus on mainframe and MQ technologies. It provides a chance to contribute to essential system operations while maintaining a flexible work environment. About CEI: As a trusted technology partner, CEI delivers solutions that help our customers transform their business and achieve meaningful results. From strategy and custom application development through application management - our technology and digital experience services are tailored to meet each unique need of our customers. Our staffing solutions bring specialized skills to complement our customers'' workforce and project requirements. #ZR #INDGEN