Principal System Administrator (Z / VM, Z / OS, ZLinux)

Oracle is looking for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with expertise in IBM Mainframe, zLinux, DB2, zVM, and AIX. The role involves improving performance and reliability, managing complex configurations, solving cross-team operational issues, and collaborating with engineering and development teams to support Oracle’s IBM Z–based environments.

Location : Bangalore & Hyderabad

Job description :

Oracle is seeking motivated Principal Site Reliability Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced rapidly evolving technology environment. This position requires wide and overall knowledge in Mainframe zLinux, DB2, zVM, AIX. Site Reliability Engineer expected to work with multiple service and product development teams, identifying cross-team issues that create risk for operations across the organization and resolving those issues with a mixture of engineering, development, troubleshooting expertise, and general operational guidance. This role also requires excellent communication and organizational skills. The candidate is expected to collaborate with service owners, other engineers and developers to deliver a superior support experience to development community.

Principal Site Reliability Engineer provides support for development and testing across multiple IBM Z servers running multiple operating systems with associated software. This position will be responsible for creating and implementing system enhancements to the IBM Z (mainframe) environments that will improve the performance and reliability for the environment. The role requires managing the disparate workloads of multiple IBM Z servers in complex configurations. Extensive problem solving across all aspects of the IBM Z configurations including analysis of development generated issues and problems.

Responsibilities : IBM Z Systems

• Administer and operate IBM Z Hardware Management Console (HMC).
• Configure and maintain IBM Z I / O subsystem definitions (IOCDS).
• Manage network interfaces connecting IBM Z systems to Oracle networks and operating environments.
• Administer IBM HMC for DS8000 disk storage systems.

z / OS Platform

z / OS Software Stack

z / VM for Linux Environments

z / VM for z / OS Guests

Linux on IBM Z

Knowledge Skills