BRIEF JOB DESCRIPTION: The e-business team is part of a worldwide Lotus Notes team providing a net.compute Lotus Notes service and is responsible for the design, deployment and support of our clients Global Notes Architecture (GNA). The environment comprises more than 50 Notes domains, running in 12 data centres supporting more than 100,000 users. In addition the team is responsible for the ongoing development of the net.compute Notes service, working closely with the US in deploying new technologies such as Lotus Notes release 5 and Sametime. The working environment is high pressure and fast moving. People need to be able to accept changing priorities and react swiftly.

RESPONSIBILITIES: There are vacancies within the team for experienced Lotus Notes administrators. Responsibilities include the support and administration of the existing Lotus Notes service, participation in projects to further develop the service and investigation into new technologies.

SKILLS REQUIRED :

	Lotus Notes systems Admin experience
	SA1 + SA2 certification
	Team Player
	Self-Motivated
	Able to work with minimal supervision on CLP
	Good customer facing skills

Intek Ref: 361-365

JOB TITLE: Operations Analyst

NUMBER OF POSITIONS: 5

START DATE: ASAP

MAXIMUM SALARY: £20K - £37K - depending on experience

WORK LOCATION: Leeds

 JOB DESCRIPTION : Work with Customer Application Development teams to develop, implement and support high quality batch applications.

SKILLS REQUIRED: 2 Years Operations Analyst Background, MVS/JES, TSO/ISPF, JCL, OPC/ESA, Infoman.

DESIRABLE : VSAM, DB2, Netview/DM, Endevor

Intek Ref: 372

JOB TITLE: Operations Analyst

NUMBER OF POSITIONS: 1

START DATE: ASAP

MAXIMUM SALARY: £20-37K - depending on experience

WORK LOCATION: Midlands

JOB DESCRIPTION: An MVS Operations Analyst is required by our clients Operations Support Group (OSG) supporting 3 major clients.

OSG employs approximately 42 Operations Analysts who work on a mixture of application development projects, batch production support and operational tool support (e.g. OPC/ESA, Endevor, RMDS, Netview/DM, Beta 44/45/93 etc). OSG is currently made up of 3 teams. Each team supports a specific customer account and is managed on a day to day basis by an Operations Support Team Leader. Opportunities exist for both junior and senior Operations Analysts within these teams.

Education and training is provided for the ideal candidate to enhance his/her skills and career options within the department. Future development within this large organisation is available and ongoing reviews are held to progress further advancement.

OSG is part of the UK Operations Support Group. As such, opportunities will also exist, for experienced Operations Analysts to undertake work on a variety of projects throughout the country.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

	Work with application development project teams, assisting them in the design, build, testing, implementation and maintenance of JCL/OPC batch applications.
	Manage the operational tasks associated with the implementation of batch systems into a production environment.
	Participate on a standby rota providing out of hours support for both batch applications and operational support tools (e.g. OPC/ESA, Netview/DM, Endevor etc.).
	Manage Problem records and Change Request queues.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

	2 Years Operations Analysis Background
	(Dialog Management)
	MVS/JES22 years
	TSO/ISPF2 years
	JCL2 years
	OPC2 years
	REXX2 years
	ISPF 1 year

DESIRABLE:

	Endevor2 years
	Netview/DM2 years
	VSAM2 years
	DB2/ADABAS2 years
	Infoman2 years
	DFRMM/CA11 year
	ROSCOE1 year
	Alchemist1 year

Intek Ref: 373

JOB TITLE: AIX Applications/Operations Analyst

NUMBER OF POSITIONS: 1

START DATE: ASAP

MAXIMUM SALARY: £30K

WORK LOCATION: South

DESCRIPTION: Our client supports and manages many IT solutions offered internally. These include Services (e.g. RETAIN, RCMS, etc) and some other IGS services such as BMS. The departments role is to "front" the service to the Customers and the Service Owner. We are therefore involved in Problem and change management, performance and capacity management, Service level Management, managing and scheduling all processing on the IT service, managing the service levels, managing critical situations, and installation of releases. This is done across various IT platforms, predominantly MVS, but also a growing and critical number of AIX based services.

JOB DESCRIPTION: To assist in the Management of the AIX IT Services supported by the department, to the agreed Service Levels. This would include: liasing with Customers and suppliers to ensure adequate service management processes are followed to achieve the desired service level, as described in the business description above. To achieve this, the person would need to:

	Understand the AIX IT environment.
	Understand the applications we are running in this environment.
	Become familiar with the processes, procedures and tools necessary to Service
	Manage the application.
	Understand who suppliers are and develop relationships with them.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

	Supporting the application and performing first and second level PD
	Liasing with users and suppliers on problems, changes, service quality and cost
	Performing predictive analyses/measurements to improve service quality
	Assessing the "wider picture" of the whole end-to-end service and how to measure and improve service quality and cost effectiveness
	Possibly some on-call/standby and out of hours support would be required

SKILLS REQUIRED:

Basic understanding of the AIX environment, operating system and tools

DESIRABLE:

	A knowledge of MVS
	TCP/IP, if possible, especially debugging skills.
	Web based skills, i.e. knowledge of web servers, html etc.
	Preferably, a basic knowledge of shell scripts and perl programming language.
	Problem and change management disciplines in a production environment.
	A willingness to work with a team in a proactive manner in a rapidly changing environment!
	The ability to document any responsibilities or procedures, as they develop.
	MQseries, SNA server for AIX (not essential but would be very useful)

Intek Ref: 375-377

JOB TITLE: Technical Specialist

NUMBER OF POSITIONS: 3

START DATE: ASAP

MAXIMUM SALARY: £38K

WORK LOCATION: Leeds

JOB DESCRIPTION: Provision of technical support to commercial strategically outsourced accounts.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

	Delivery of day to day services to agreed service levels (involves working on a standby rota)
	Working with the New Business Development Team to grow business and develop solutions that meet the delivery requirements of HSDS.
	Ensuring full compliance to customer standards.
	Development and implementation of productivity tools.
	May be required to work for short periods at other locations, particularly Scotland and Midlands, and at customer sites.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

	AIX or Solaris to advanced admin level. Unix scripting including Sed and Awk.
	2 years support experience in a commercial organisation and 1 year as team leader.

DESIRABLE:TX Series, MQ Series, DCE, operational Oracle DBA, AIX or Solaris performance and tuning, experience with highly available systems design, unix capacity planning.

Intek Ref: 378-380

JOB TITLE: Technical Specialist - AIX

NUMBER OF POSITIONS: 3

START DATE: ASAP

MAXIMUM SALARY: £35K

WORK LOCATION: South

BRIEF JOB DESCRIPTION: Deployment and support of GNA & GWA systems.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

	Build, test , check, support of AIX operating system on SP/2 mainframe
	Implementation of notes server code.
	Software upgrades
	Year 2000 upgrades
	SP/2 node installation
	Technical support to above
	Prime shift and out of hours

SKILLS REQUIRED:

	Team player
	Self-motivated
	Able to work with minimum supervision
	Practical, hands on experience of AIX installation and configuration in an SP environment.

DESIRABLE:

Notes server code skills and problem determination skills.

 

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