Job descriptionRQ10494 - Sr. Systems Administrator/Operations Support Specialist 1-year contract (247 business days) - 1 possible extension ONSITE 5 days a week - Jarvis St. Toronto Deliverables: Provide advanced, specialized technical co-ordination of the development, testing and implementation of JCL, updates to job schedules CA-7), reporting and other tools, support for online and batch processing, SFTP/FTP and print file creation. Provide a leadership role for ensuring that ITIL processes are followed, specifically incident, change and release, to support multi-processing, multi-image computer services for a client base of OPS ministries, agencies, boards and commissions. Provide advanced, specialized technical support to clients on all scheduling, testing and implementation activities 7/24 mission critical systems. In depth, advanced knowledge of and extensive experience with Batch and online systems and computer system technologies and operating systems, for large mainframe environments, ministry standard/commonly used and customized application software/hardware, databases and application recovery procedures to meet client requirements and conform to corporate systems standards. Provide expert technical advice to clients on production control procedures/processes and leadership and co-ordination to support automation of client production applications. Advanced knowledge of mainframe utilities (e.g. TSO/ISPF, JCL, FTP) and desktop software (e.g. PKI, MS Word, MS Excel, Internet applications), and database software (e.g. DB2, IMS, CICS), hardware/software and knowledge of the relationships between multi-tiered systems to schedule and monitor production batch processing systems. Must Have: 10+ years experience providing oversight to support mainframe batch processing. Demonstrated experience in a large enterprise complex environment. Advanced knowledge of technologies and utilities such as automated scheduling tools (e.g. CA-7 ), client scheduling processes and their linkages to batch and online applications (e.g., IMS, DB2) and printing tools (e.g. View and Deliver ) to ensure timely execution of scheduled batch processing and output delivery.