The Role
The RACF Specialist is responsible for managing the RACF environment, supporting user authentication, authorization, logging, and access control while performing daily operations and maintenance tasks.
Summary Generated by Built In
RACF Specialist - Remote
Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) is a security program that serves as a component of the Security Server for the z/OS operating system. It provides tools to help manage access to critical resources on a mainframe system.Key Project areas they need to support:User Identification and Authentication: RACF uses a user ID and a system-encrypted password to identify and verify users. It can also authenticate users with a password phrase, digital certificate, Kerberos ticket, or a PassTicket.Authorization: RACF authorizes users to access protected resources based on the security policies defined in its database. This database retains information about users, resources, and access authorities.Logging and Reporting: RACF logs and reports various attempts to access protected resources, whether successful or unsuccessful. This feature helps in detecting security exposures or threats.Access Control: RACF controls the means of access to resources, allowing management to adopt the principle of the least possible privilege. This principle restricts access to sensitive resources to only those whose normal duties require their use.
Manage and maintain the RACF environment. Tasks will include daily RACF operations and maintenance, which may also include version upgrades and applying fixes/patches.
SALARY AND BENEFITS
The leadership of our Company believes in attracting and retaining exceptional talent committed to serving our clients. We offer a generous benefits package including health insurance, paid vacation, disability, and life insurance, and more. Please visit our Careers page for additional information. Salary and benefits information will be available to applicants, when and if an offer is made.
HOW TO APPLY
All applications must be completed online. We do not accept paper submissions. Please visit our Careers Page to review all current job postings, and instructions on the application process.
As an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer, Cycurion, Inc. and our Subsidiaries prohibit discriminatory employment actions against and treatment of its employees and applicants for employment based on actual or perceived race or color, size (including bone structure, body size, height, shape, and weight), religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity (one’s internal deeply-held sense of one’s gender which may be the same or different from one’s sex assigned at birth; one’s gender identity may be male, female, neither or both, e.g., non-binary), gender expression (the representation of gender as expressed through, for example, one’s name, choice of pronouns, clothing, haircut, behavior, voice, or body characteristics; gender expression may not be distinctively male or female and may not conform to traditional gender-based stereotypes assigned to specific gender identities), disability, marital status, relationship and family structure (including domestic partnerships, polyamorous families and individuals, chosen family, platonic co-parents, and multigenerational families), genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, arrest or pre-employment conviction record, credit history, unemployment status, caregiver status, salary history, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) is a security program that serves as a component of the Security Server for the z/OS operating system. It provides tools to help manage access to critical resources on a mainframe system.Key Project areas they need to support:User Identification and Authentication: RACF uses a user ID and a system-encrypted password to identify and verify users. It can also authenticate users with a password phrase, digital certificate, Kerberos ticket, or a PassTicket.Authorization: RACF authorizes users to access protected resources based on the security policies defined in its database. This database retains information about users, resources, and access authorities.Logging and Reporting: RACF logs and reports various attempts to access protected resources, whether successful or unsuccessful. This feature helps in detecting security exposures or threats.Access Control: RACF controls the means of access to resources, allowing management to adopt the principle of the least possible privilege. This principle restricts access to sensitive resources to only those whose normal duties require their use.
Manage and maintain the RACF environment. Tasks will include daily RACF operations and maintenance, which may also include version upgrades and applying fixes/patches.
SALARY AND BENEFITS
The leadership of our Company believes in attracting and retaining exceptional talent committed to serving our clients. We offer a generous benefits package including health insurance, paid vacation, disability, and life insurance, and more. Please visit our Careers page for additional information. Salary and benefits information will be available to applicants, when and if an offer is made.
HOW TO APPLY
All applications must be completed online. We do not accept paper submissions. Please visit our Careers Page to review all current job postings, and instructions on the application process.
As an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer, Cycurion, Inc. and our Subsidiaries prohibit discriminatory employment actions against and treatment of its employees and applicants for employment based on actual or perceived race or color, size (including bone structure, body size, height, shape, and weight), religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity (one’s internal deeply-held sense of one’s gender which may be the same or different from one’s sex assigned at birth; one’s gender identity may be male, female, neither or both, e.g., non-binary), gender expression (the representation of gender as expressed through, for example, one’s name, choice of pronouns, clothing, haircut, behavior, voice, or body characteristics; gender expression may not be distinctively male or female and may not conform to traditional gender-based stereotypes assigned to specific gender identities), disability, marital status, relationship and family structure (including domestic partnerships, polyamorous families and individuals, chosen family, platonic co-parents, and multigenerational families), genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, arrest or pre-employment conviction record, credit history, unemployment status, caregiver status, salary history, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Top Skills
Digital Certificates
Kerberos
Passticket
Racf
Z/Os
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