Mainframe Engineer

OSC EdgeTech LLC is seeking a talentedMainframe Engineer to join the team.

OSC EdgeTech is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cook Inlet Region Inc. (CIRI) an Alaska Native Corporation proudly owned by over 9400 Shareholders. OSC EdgeTech was created to deliver agile responsive IT solutions to meet the evolving needs of federal and defense customers. As an SBA-certified 8(a) entity with a Facility Clearance (FCL) OSC EdgeTech streamlines the acquisition process while maintaining the trusted quality security and innovation that define OSC Edge.

Cook Inlet Region Inc. also known as CIRI is one of 12 land-based Alaska Native regional corporations created pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). CIRIs regional boundaries roughly follow the traditional Denaina territory of Southcentral Alaska. CIRI was incorporated on June 8 1972 and is owned today by a diverse group of more than 9500 Shareholders who live in Alaska and throughout the world.

OSC EdgeTech offers excellent benefits for eligible include paid holidays paid time off 401K with employer match dental vision health insurance plans as well as life and disability benefits.

Position Overview

The Mainframe Engineer provides technical support for Mainframe engineering and administration system upgrades incident response service degradations outages and other service interruptions relating to the Mainframe environment. This position will investigate hardware and software problems related to the Mainframe infrastructure and perform corrective actions.

Major Activities

• Architect design and document mirrored Mainframe services which support the Governments objectives for application provisioning utility functions COOP capabilities and protection of hosted data.
• Make recommendations for components and upgrades that are needed to modernize the Mainframe environment over time.
• Receive install sustain all components needed to fully provision two mirrored Mainframe systems located at geographically dispersed Data Centers.
• Support and sustain mission specific applications running in the Mainframe environment.
• Perform senior system administration tasks including configuring local and remote storage; partitioning; starting and stopping services; configuring and sustaining file systems; shell scripting; setting kernel run-time parameters; configuring network services such as file sharing web Secure Shell (SSH) File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and/or Secure FTP (SFTP); and managing user accounts and roles on Mainframe systems.
• Create high availability clusters manage logical volumes and snapshots configure enterprise management systems and deploy and manage Enterprise Systems in a scalable efficient manner; build and release updates and configuration changes using a central package manager toolset; and create version control repositories.
• Create organizations users and roles in the system/patch management system; and manages software channels and errata.
• Support application upgrades and deployments.
• Use system tools to analyze and improve the performance of enterprise systems and applications running on the Mainframe for specific workloads and performance parameters.
• Create maintain extend ESB services to Mainframe-hosted applications develop enterprise integration patterns to route mediate and transform messages and other information flows between Mainframe services and hosted applications.
• Design and implement directory services and authentication for enterprise environments and configure Mainframe systems to use directory services and network authentication services.
• Create and update container images and links to containers as well as automate the management and deployment of systems in an enterprise environment.
• Implement monitoring to further enable management of application systems running on the Mainframe as well as deploy updates and patches for both Government and commercial software; detect isolate troubleshoot and resolve Mainframe issues.
• Execute break-fix actions on failed applications print jobs and batch jobs.
• Implement and support the testing of Disaster Recovery (DR) for all systems and COOP operations of those enterprise systems as designated; and support the DR/COOP testing of the Mainframe system every 90 days.
• Plan execute and document Mainframe baseline configuration specification changes (hardware software operating system etc.).
  
• Perform other duties as appropriate and as assigned.
  

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• IT technical background & mainframe programming experience
• Advanced knowledge in all components of software delivery with concentration in requirements design and development.
• Advanced knowledge or troubleshooting and resolving incidents with government mainframes.
• Advanced knowledge of application support tasks like systems support security reviews and maintenance tasks.
• Advanced knowledge performing mainframe testing
  
• Excellent verbal written and interpersonal communication skills excellent organizational and multi-tasking skills.
• Great analytical critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Superior customer service skills.
  
• Adaptable and capable of working in fast-paced environments.
  

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• 10 or more years of mainframe Development experience with design analysis and coding: COBOL (CICS) JCL CICS CA7 etc.
  
• Valid Sec Certification
• Must be US citizen
• Must possess active secret security clearance or higher
• Must be able to pass pre-employment background check

E-Verify:

OSC EdgeTech participates in E-Verify. We will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and if necessary the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employees Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

Reasonable Accommodation:

OSC EdgeTech LLC will provide reasonable accommodations according to applicable state and federal laws to all qualified individuals with physical or mental compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with OSC EdgeTech LLC or any of its subsidiaries please email

Required Experience:

Senior IC