About Us!
The mission of Housing & Development Board (HDB) is to provide affordable, quality housing and a great living environment where communities thrive. To achieve its mission, HDB aims to be data-driven to the core and adopt evidence-based decision making in developing better housing policies service, improving service delivery and optimising operations.
What Will You Do?
As a Systems Specialist, you will be part of a team to support the following areas:
· Install, customise and administer system and application tools (i.e. TPX, CA DB2 Admin tools, Xpediter, IBM InfoSphere CDC, Infoprint, Netview, TMON for CICS, CA Sysview DB2 performance monitoring tools) on Mainframe.
· Collaborate with other infrastructure teams, e.g., Storage, security teams, open systems, network etc to ensure applications running in CICS, DB2 and MQ can interface with applications on other platforms, e.g., WebSphere Application Servers on Linux
· Learn and understand critical proprietary business systems built /running in the Mainframe.
· Maintain all system & sub-system environments in compliance with the security guidelines.
· Assist with testing, implementation, and installation of each sub-system and associated software.
· Diagnose and resolve environment system abends and abnormal operating problems using system logs, and other available logs and documents.
· Develop/Maintain/Improve in-house programs and utilities in COBOL, REXX and SAS.
· Have an understanding and experience of IBM SMP/E environment and ability to use SMP/E to install software.
· Ensure stability of the above-mentioned products in support of many critical business applications
· Maintain system documentation.
· Provide 24x7 on-call support on a rotation basis which at times require work outside of normal business hours to support critical tasks.
· Provide support to application team on technical questions.
· Participate in Disaster Recovery Operations
· Perform problem analysis and resolution implementation to support system and application needs.
· Raise and follow up on any problem cases with software vendors until issues are resolved.
· Ability to work on project teams, delivering on key project milestones, and communicating effectively with a wide variety of people.
· Manage mainframe communications in areas such as VTAM, TCPIP and TN3270 etc, including customization to HDB standards through activities such as maintenance, problem resolution, security compliance or z/OS upgrade.
Technical Support and Administration of CICS
· Administer CICS in a CICSPlex environment.
· Tune CICS configuration to ensure CICS does not encounter storage shortages and/or any other system performance issues.
· Define and administer CICS system resources such as PCT, FCT and DB2 trans etc to support CICS applications in a CICSPlex environment.
· Provide proactive and automate monitoring of DB2 and CICS using tools such as TMON/CICS CA SYSView for DB2 and Netview etc to meet high availability standards in a 24x7 operating environment.
· Conduct impact analysis, strategize, plan and execute upgrade to new versions of CICS
· Apply regular maintenance and patching to resolve any known or reported defects and security alerts.
Technical Support and Administration of DB2
· Administer DB2 Subsystems in a DB2 data sharing environment.
· Monitor, review and administer the usage of DB2 remote connections to ensure that they are enough to service JDBC applications from open system.
· Review and configure DB2 configuration (zparm) to ensure settings are appropriate and will provide optimum operating behaviour for DB2 onsite.
· Provide performance-tuning to DB2 on z/OS to ensure mission critical software are running efficiently.
· Conduct impact analysis, strategize, plan and execute upgrade to new versions of DB2 database.
· Apply regular maintenance and patching to resolve any known or reported defects and security alerts.
You will be a Great Fit if you have:
• Strong background in IT/ Computer Science / Computer Engineering or Related
• Strong z/OS skills in all IBM utilities and mainframe communication services in TCPIP, VTAM and TN3270
• Strong understanding of access methods and VSAM Record Level Sharing.
• Software: TSO ISPF, JCL, DFSMS, HSM, DSS, DFP, IBM utilities, CA1, DB2, CICS, COBOL, MQ
• Ability to work in teams, delivering on key project milestones, and communicating effectively with a wide variety of people.
• Must be able to work beyond business hours including weekend, when necessary
• Possess good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience is preferred.
• Have good command of written and oral English.
Good to Have:
- Great Attitude to bring the best out our team
- Team Player; we work together as a team
- Autonomous
- Take ownership
Successful candidates will be offered a 1+1 year contract in the first instance. Conversion to perm is dependent on good performance.
Find out more about a career with HDB at www.hdb.gov.sg/cs/infoweb/about-us/careers
Please apply for the job through the Careers@Gov job portal as linked:
https://www.careers.hrp.gov.sg/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/sap/ZGERCFA004/index.html#/JobDescription/14041101/0B73DD95-E036-1EEE-9DF6-C2E2AB9980B4
