EnterpriseZ Security RACF Engineer

Location: Montreal

Job Title:
Enterprise

Z Security RACF Engineer
Experience Level: Level 5 (expert): 15 years+ or niche skill set
12 Months Contract

Location:

Remote

Enterprise

Z Security in ETS is responsible for engineering and managing various mainframe authentication and authorization systems. This position is for a seasoned RACF security engineer to join the Operations and Support team of the Enterprise

Z Security. The ideal candidate will be working closely with Enterprise

Z Security team members and the business technology groups to provide mainframe security operations and support. The candidate should have a strong analytical, organizational and communication skills. The role will be Remote and expected to work hours that overwrap New York working hours and requires periodic on-call support and maintenance duties outside of normal working hours as needed to support and resolve security issues.
Duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
" Senior security administrator to provide the mainframe user and application access support and project task requests utilizing RACF and ZSECURE and other homegrown tooling.
" Interact with technology teams such as Developers, Systems Programming, DBA, CICS/MQ Support, etc.to provide the mainframe security support.
" Support technology group project implementation while adhering to the firm policy and security best practices.
" Develop automation, tooling, reports, utilities, and batch programs.
" Troubleshoot and track issue tickets with various teams and users.
" Participate in an on-call rotation and address questions / issues.
" Coordinate with Security Management team to review security proposals and assess technical feasibility.

Required
" College graduate with 5+ years related work experience on the mainframe.
" Advanced experience with RACF configuration and supporting tooling including ZSECURE.
" Working knowledge and support of digital certificates, Kerberos, SSL, and SSH
" Ability to program in at least one command Mainframe batch and reporting language (such as: C, JCL, CARLA, REXX, CLIST, ISPF, SAS)
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Experience with z/OS utilities and facilities (such as: ISPF, TSO, SDSF, JES)
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Experience with database technology (such as: Sybase, DB2, SQL)
" Understanding of security concepts and technologies
" Capable of working independently with limited oversight
" MS Office business application experience (Excel, Word, Access, Power Point)
" Excellent verbal and written communication skills
" Must be a team player and foster a team first environment and culture.
" Open for working on on call rotation (weekends)

Desired
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Experience with Broadcom Top Secret and Broadcom Compliance Event Manager
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Experience with Service Now, JIRA, and MS Team
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Experience with distributed technology (such as: UNIX, USS file systems)
" Knowledge of C, shell scripting, OpenSSL, SSH, CARLA.
" Good project planning, organization, time management skills and ability to multi-task
" Prior experience with Systems Programming, Mainframe Network engineering, Middleware (such as: MQ Series, etc.)