System Admin III

Diagnoses and resolves z/Series system problems with a focus on extremely high availability. Coordinates outside support resources (vendors) to resolve vendor specific problems in a time-critical environment. Collaborates with other system administrators, systems Programmers, network, and application teams to perform daily activities ranging in complexity and will be responsible for the installation, configuration, upkeep, and reliable operation of the mainframe environment. Installs, tests, and maintains systems software and hardware including operating systems, compilers, utilities, monitoring tools, and network communications components. Evaluate, analyze, diagnose and resolve operating system and program product related issues. Presents statistical utilization and trend analysis, including recommendations to enterprise developers and management. Works with datacenter resources, helps identify CPU reduction opportunities in applications, sub-systems and work with application and system programmers to implement solutions. Reviews, evaluates and makes recommendations on software and hardware changes. Researches system and application problems involving multiple system components and unknown causes, in a time-critical environment. Performs routine and on-call systems programming support and troubleshooting. Performs problem management and resolution for system problems to help application areas, as needed, in troubleshooting, use of tools, information, etc. Completes any other job related duties needed to help drive to our Vision, fulfill our Purpose, and abide by our Organization's Values.