# Technical Specialist Practitioner

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Chennai
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Technical Specialist Practitioner to join our team at Barclays. The successful candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems.

**Responsibilities:**

- Build Engineering: Develop, deliver, and maintain high-quality infrastructure solutions to meet business requirements, ensuring reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use.

- Incident Management: Monitor IT infrastructure and system performance to identify and resolve potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages.

- Automation: Develop and implement automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.

- Security: Implement secure configurations and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats.

- Teamwork: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define IT infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.

- Learning: Stay informed about industry technology trends and innovations, and contribute to the organisation's technology communities.

**Requirements:**

- Fundamental understanding of z/OS.

- Previous z/OS hardware installation, configuration, cabling & design experience.

- Good understanding of mainframe operating system tools: TSO, JCL & Utilities, plus HMA, SANNAV and MVS commands etc.

- CPU, Channel, FICON configurations/installations.

- Connect & Switch - SAN Knowledge and configuration of Broadcom switches (port set up: Blocking/Un-Blocking, zoning etc).

- Previous IODF experience (HCD).

**Desirable skills:**

- z/OS Technical Expertise.

- A good knowledge of MVS either from an operations or Support background.

- Experience in data centre installations, HMA operation, HCD (IODF’s), SANNAV, PPRC-XD, FICON cabling infrastructures, floorspace management, change management tools (ServiceFirst), cross-vendor DASD & Tape configurations/installations, PPRC connectivity, CPU, Channel & FICON configurations/installations, Connect & Switch SAN Knowledge (Brodcom X6/X7 switches etc), Server Time Protocol (STP), CTC Configurations.

- Previous experience in hardware installations, decommissions and Service moves.

- Knowledge of Teradata platforms.

## Skills

### Required
- z/OS
- TSO
- JCL
- Utilities
- HMA
- SANNAV
- MVS
- CPU
- Channel
- FICON
- Broadcom switches
- IODF
- HCD

### Nice to have
- z/OS Technical Expertise
- Data Centre installations
- HMA operation
- PPRC-XD
- FICON cabling infrastructures
- floorspace management
- change management tools
- cross-vendor DASD & Tape configurations/installations
- PPRC connectivity
- Server Time Protocol
- CTC Configurations
- Teradata platforms

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