UCSD Layoff from Career Appointment: Apply by 9/23/24 for consideration with preference for rehire. All layoff applicants should contact their Employment Advisor.
Special Selection Applicants: Apply by 10/2/24. Eligible Special Selection clients should contact their Disability Counselor for assistance.
This is a 100% contract appointment for one year with the possibility of extension or conversion to career status.
DESCRIPTION
DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:
UC San Diego is ranked the 9th best public university in the nation by U.S. News and World Report and is the largest employer based in San Diego County. Reporting to the VC-CFO, Information Technology Services (ITS) delivers Enterprise information technology services to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the leadership of the campus Chief Information Officer (CIO). Information Technology Services (IT Services) uses world-class services and technologies to empower UC San Diego's mission to transform California and the world as a student-centered, research-focused, service-oriented public university. As a strategic member of the UC San Diego community, IT Services embraces innovation in their delivery of IT services, infrastructure, applications, and support. IT Services is customer-focused and committed to collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are core values at UC San Diego and within Information Technology Services. Crafting a culture around these values allows us to more deeply connect with and appreciate our employees, students, and campus partners. Information Technology Services is continuously working to build a community where we all feel safe, empowered, and encouraged to bring our authentic selves to work. We do this not only because it is what's right, but because we know that diversity drives insight and innovation. We are proud to partner closely UC San Diego's Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, as their dedication to this mission helps us all to drive change.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Production Control Team provides workload automation, batch scheduling and file transfer services in many supported environments (Linux, Windows, Mainframe).
The Lead Production Analyst is responsible for being the subject matter expert for the Production Enterprise Schedule and associated interfaces and executional components, and provides advanced technical oversight and guidance to other Production Control Analysts on a continuing basis.
Responsibilities:
Perform a lead role in implementing, maintaining and scheduling workloads and event-based processes using Rocket Zeke and Zena.
Responsible for implementing job streams with complex dependencies and managing complex calendar schedules.
Analyze trouble situations; provide technical support to users; perform restart and recovery routines as necessary.
Work closely with campus department representatives to understand and identify their functional business information systems requirements and implement those requirements.
Provide consultation to developers and other staff members with regards to the use and technical aspects of batch scheduling and workload automation.
QUALIFICATIONS
Proven ability to analyze impact of scripts, programs and associated problems on production systems and production job schedules.
Thorough knowledge of standard job scheduling packages for large or highly integrated systems.
Knowledge of z/OS based systems including IBM JCL, TSO, SDSF, and FDRABR.
Proven ability to install, schedule, monitor, stop, start and restart complex application programs and scripts on a large shared system or set of interconnected systems under multiple operating systems.
Proven ability to decode complex error messages for a variety of operating systems and programming languages to repair basic scripts and to correct basic production problems.
Proven ability to orchestrate recovery procedures for failed jobs.
Preferred Qualifications:
Familiarity with Rocket Zeke and Zena
Demonstrated ability to coordinate actions to recover data and restart applicable jobs and analyze overall impact to enterprise production environment.
SPECIAL CONDITIONS
Employee must be available to work evenings and weekends.
Employee must be available to travel as required.
Job offer is contingent upon satisfactory clearance based on background check results.
UC San Diego is an academic powerhouse and economic engine, recognized as one of the top 8 public universities by U.S. News and World Report. Innovation is central to who we are and what we do. Here, students learn that knowledge isn't just acquired in the classroom - life is their laboratory. UC San Diego's rich academic portfolio includes six undergraduate colleges, five academic divisions and five graduate and professional schools. The university's award-winning scholars are experts at the forefront of their fields with an impressive track record for achieving scientific, medical and technological breakthroughs.