Cycle Support & Technical Test Analyst , Senior Associate

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Peraton is hiring a Cycle Support and Technical Test team Analyst who will keep the Shared System Maintainer's schedules and its development and test environments running reliably and up to date. This position will have the ability to be remote.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day support of the Shared System Maintainer’s cycles via IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS), including daily plans, schedules, and SPITAB (MCS) cycle changes when requested.
• Create, maintain, schedule, and verify completion of overnight common utility cycles (CICS jobs, DRVFI, application-specific DR backup & restore jobs, MTL, SMF, and Security: Vanguard and RDS), and manage scheduling changes and cycle support for DEV/TEST cycles.
• Install changes and DEV/TEST cycle changes for releases and other change requests in the Maintainer’s DEV/TEST environments.
• Oversee DEV/TEST CICS environments, including administration of CLERK IDs and Operator Control File IDs along with RACF ID & Password reset requests.
• Support Developer and BA testing in DEV/TEST regions and cycles, including JCL mentoring and ad-hoc job requests.
• Monitor DEV/TEST cycles and assist the on-call team with ALPHA DEV/TEST cycle monitoring and ABEND resolution. Capture ABENDs in the ABEND Log for reporting and email notification and pursue root cause and permanent corrections with the Maintainers.

Required Qualifications

• Education:  2 years experience with a BS/BA degree or 6 years of experience in lieu of a degree
• Clearance:  Requires US Citizenship with the ability to obtain a Public Trust
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to coordinate with and support developers, Business Analysts, on-call staff, Release Coordinators, and scheduling teams.
• Working z/OS JCL skills, with the ability to review, correct, and coach others on JCL.
• Working knowledge of z/OS batch processing, IWS scheduling, and job troubleshooting (ABEND, condition code, restart/recovery), including reading job output and logs (SYSOUT, SDSF, SMF) to identify root causes.
• Experience with CMS Medicare claims systems (FISS, MCS, DME, CWF) or similar large-scale batch environments.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with IWS/TWS for z/OS, including plan, calendar, application, and run-cycle maintenance.
• Experience installing and promoting changes in a controlled test environment, and with change/release management in a regulated environment.
• Experience administering CICS regions (user/ID and control file maintenance), and familiarity with CICS batch interfaces and security tooling (e.g., Vanguard, RDS).
• Experience troubleshooting batch ABENDs in test cycles and maintaining an ABEND/incident log with trend reporting.
• Experience with FISS, MCS, or comparable Medicare claims systems, and mentoring Developers, testers, or scheduler teams on mainframe batch practices.

$66,000 - $106,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.