Responsibilities:
- End to End monitoring of Government Services and underlying infrastructure like mainframes, UNIX, Windows servers, storage and network devices 24/7/365 to ensure these are available as per defined SLAs by taking prompt necessary actions or escalating to Tier 2/3 or vendors as needed.
- These services include critical, essential, time sensitive public facing applications, websites, systems, subsystems which are hosted in Government Guelph, Kingston and regional data centres.
- Responding to high priority requests and Incidents.
- Participate in system recovery and service restoration efforts and meetings.
- Provide Operational system updates/upgrades, apply patches and address issues involved during these tasks.
- Initiating established recovery and or escalation procedures.
- Implementing Change requests for mainframe, midrange and network Platforms.
- Ensuring Service level commitments to ITS clients and stakeholders and public sector agencies are met.
- Participating in developing and delivering related training communications and procedural documentation.
- Participates in departmental initiatives such as Shift left and Agile monitoring.
- Participate in Yearly Systrust Audit.10-Participates in semi Annual Disaster recovery exercises.
zOs mainframe systems - 25%:
- Using specific examples, describe the experience that candidates have supporting large ZOS mainframe systems.
- Using specific examples, describe candidates demonstrated knowledge with Unix and Wintel servers and Network Peripherals.
- Demonstrated Incident and Change Management activities.
- Demonstrated ability for strong documentation and writing skills.
- Demonstrated experience in presentation, verbal and written communication skills.
- Using specific examples, describe candidates demonstrated knowledge of System and Application Monitoring Tools.
- Using specific examples, please describe candidates demonstrated knowledge of Service Management Tools such as eSMT, CIT, Remedy and ITIL.
- Using specific examples, please describe candidates demonstrated knowledge of Communications, Collaborations and analytics tools.