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Job Description

Are you ready to unleash your full potential? We're looking for people who are passionate about payments to chart Worldpay's path to being the largest and most-loved payments company in the world.

About the team

Worldpay powers 2.2 trillion payments annually across 146 countries in over 135 separate currencies with over a million-merchants supported globally. Worldpay is the largest acquirer by volume globally, we provide a reliable, secure, and scalable payments platform 24x7 365 day a year.

Being part of the 200 strong Infrastructure Services organization, you'll help to engineer and deliver the core infrastructure services that power our payments platform. We're responsible for running some very critical systems, maintaining 20,000 servers via an automation platform, thousands of databases and petabytes of storage hosted from our data centres and public cloud.

We are looking to hire a Sr z/OS Mainframe Network Software Systems Programmer to join our z/OS Mainframe Software Infrastructure team. In this role you will help to define strategies for our z/OS Mainframe Network Software environment and support its implementation.

What you will be doing

• Works independently to determine mainframe z/OS software upgrade requirements to maintain all products at current and supported levels determined by IBM and third-party vendor(s)
• Coordinates and schedules all major software upgrades between different Mainframe Technical support teams
• Defines resource requirements in conjunction with other managers within Technical Services group to support software and hardware upgrade requirements
• Develops and maintains standards for all Software Infrastructure and Program Products
• Monitors CPU, Memory and DASD trends to maintain service levels of supported software
• Stays abreast of vendor software trends and product release schedules for the z/OS technology software on the IBM mainframe
• Manages multiple projects, develops detailed implementation plans and schedules, and prepares periodic status reports
• Consults with management and technical staff on other related mainframe software and hardware initiative.

What you bring:

• z/OS Mainframe VTAM, SNA, APPN & HPR and TCP/IP
• Implementation, configuration and support of VTAM, SNA, APPN technologies
• Implementation, configuration and support of mainframe TCP/IP in a z/OS Parallel Sysplex environment
• Implementation, configuration and support of Connect: Direct
• Implementation, configuration and support of NetView Network Management
• Understanding and support of enterprise system communications and file transfer protocols
• Understanding and support of enterprise encryption applications and processes such as TCPIP AT/TLS & SSL/TLS
• Implementation, configuration and support of communications server infrastructure program products.

Added bonus if you have:

• Excellent communication skills, analytical ability, strong judgment, and systems management skills
• Ability to work with clients, vendors and other Infrastructure Services functional areas
• Strong skills in mainframe systems administration
• The ability to follow a project through to completion, and/or to work as part of a larger team to complete the components of a complex project.
• Perform problem determination and resolution, capture and transmit system dumps, closely work with vendor's technical support, apply fixes and patches, coordinate testing and implementation of fixes and new versions, and work with other mainframe-based technical teams on production roll-out
• Exhibit a collaborative style that promotes teamwork
• 15+ yrs. of related technical experience.
• Support and participate in Disaster Recovery exercises
• Provide on-call support

What we offer you

• A competitive salary and benefits
• A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities
• The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in the payment industry
• Time to support charities and give back in your community

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For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

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