Mainframe Engineering (Engineering)

Location: North America WFH location - not necessarily in Atlanta

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.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 Mainframe MQ Systems Programmer is responsible for all phases of MQ engineering and MQ operation functions. The candidate must be comfortable working with MQ in a 24x7 large scale Sysplex environment (multi-queue managers, high volume, large number of applications) and must be able to support application developers in the use of MQ in batch and CICS environments. Individual will also interface with the distributed MQ engineering and operations teams. The MQ engineer should have strong analytical, organizational and communication skills. Periodic on-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the MQ environment and to resolve issues. Skills required:

Knowledgeable in MQ Performance & Tuning as well as MQ Monitoring

MQ resource definition

Ability to perform problem determination as well as interface with IBM Problem support group

Perform MQ software maintenance

SMP/E knowledge

Familiar with Disaster Recovery procedures & tests

Support in-house developed tools including wrapper for the MQI, enhanced CICS trigger monitor, and channel security exits.

Support performance and capacity planning including the development of performance and trending reports

Knowledge of Sysview for MQ, CA-Neumics Analyzer

Good oral/written communication skills

Understanding of zOS functions such as: APF, Link list, LPA, VSAMSkills Desired:

Knowledge of MQ Data Sharing in a large Sysplex environment

Understanding of High Availability concepts

Familiarity with CICS TS V5

Knowledge of external security (RACF & CA-Top Secret) as related to MQ

Prior Application programming experience to support application staff

Knowledge of Cobol from an application point of view Job: Engineering Title: Mainframe Engineering (Engineering) Location: Georgia-Atlanta Requisition ID: 3189261