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Senior Systems Programmer

Spectraforce Technologies
United States, South Carolina, Columbia
Mar 13, 2025
Role Name: Senior Systems Programmer

Location: Columbia, SC (Partially Onsite, 3 days on site per week and as needed Hours)

Duration: 12 Months

C2 clearance eligibility is required

Job Summary:

Duties/About the role:

  • 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.



Day to Day:

  • Day to day operation is supporting the Main Frame z/OS to include updating JCL, monitoring system logs via SDFS.
  • Preparation for disaster recovery exercises to include several weekly meetings.
  • During the recoveries requires to recovery the z/OS and other applications as outlined in runbook.
  • Managing hardware/software support licenses to include submitting purchase requisitions.



Work environment:

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



Team Info/Team name:

  • This team is dedicated to supporting the external customer acting as a secondary portability and disaster recovery site.
  • Currently there are 4 team members one manager.
  • We support distributed and main frame systems.



Job Requirements:

Required Experience:

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



Required EDU:

  • 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 Software and Tools (Hands on experience required):

  • Standard office equipment.
  • MS Office
  • z/OS, JCL, SDSF, Dataset management



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.



Soft skills:

  • Strong Communication and troubleshooting skills.



Nice to have/Preferred skills:

  • Knowledge of DASD management, z/OS HMC management, APF knowledge, DB2, CICS, MQ, BMC MF applications.

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