Title: Senior Systems Programmer
Duration: 12 Months 
Location: Columbia, SC (Partial Onsite – Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Onsite and as needed.)

C2 eligibility is required ?- Must be a US Citizen
Standard Hours - 8-4:30pm Monday - Friday. Overtime, on call, weekends, and off hours as needed once fully trained

Duties:

• Day to Day:
  • Resolving test and production issues that arise Working on customer requests such as creating a new queues, queue manager & changing queue depth Working on a multitude of projects ranging from installing the latest release of MQ to configuring MQ on servers
  • Working with error reports and handling multiple tasks at the same time Internal monitoring such as checking queue depth
• 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.
• 40% Diagnose, isolate, and debug software problems and perform problem resolution. Identify issues that the vendor is responsible for and refer those issues appropriately.
• 35% Coordinate installation, testing, and maintenance of systems software. Schedule system downtime in a way that minimizes user impact.
• 10% 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.
• 10% Cross train in all areas of systems programming in order to efficiently perform on-call rotation.
• 5% Provide technical and disaster recovery support for systems software.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Strong analytical and logical thinking skills. Strong understanding of systems programming, graphical user interfaces, control languages, development, quality assurance, and implementation strategies of systems software.
• Thorough understanding of currently utilized systems programming productivity tools and their use. Ability to review and analyze systems software and recommend performance solutions.

Required Technologies:

• 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

Nice To Have:

• CICS – desired
• IBM Websphere MQ – desired
• Cobol – desired
• Unix & zlinux - nice to have

Required Software and Other Tools:

• Standard office equipment.

Work Environment:

• Fast paced, multi-platformed environment which may require action and response 24X7 to support the technical business needs of the customer.

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree 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.

Required Work Experience:

• 6 Years IT work experience including varied systems programming experience.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 45.00/daily.