Mainframe Engineer

Title: Mainframe Engineer
Location: Vienna VA (REMOTE)
Duration: Initial 6-month contract with possible extensions
Work Requirements: US Citizen GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

Mainframe Engineer

• Strong ability to investigate operational technical and business problems; analyze requirements; and recommend reliable automation solutions.
• Ability to communicate complex system and automation information clearly to technical teams business partners and upper management.
• Strong time management prioritization research analytical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation as required.
• Demonstrated ability to lead guide and mentor others while promoting technical best practices process improvement and operational efficiency.
• Expert-level experience with IBM System Automation for z/OS including administration configuration policy development managed resource automation automation definitions resource dependency models and SA policy database maintenance.
• Advanced REXX programming experience developing enterprise automation solutions command processors automation routines operational tooling and automation scripts.
• Strong experience with IBM NetView including automation tables message automation command lists PIPEs event processing and policy-driven automation components.
• Experience designing implementing and supporting automation across z/OS subsystems and middleware platforms such as CICS Db2 IMS JES2/JES3 MQ and TCP/IP.
• Experience developing automation for CICS availability recovery startup shutdown restart and health monitoring.
• Strong knowledge of Parallel Sysplex environments cross-system automation concepts JCL SDSF TSO/ISPF and z/OS operations.
• Experience with IBM Workload Scheduler including IWS TWS ZWS and workload automation processes.
• Familiarity with z/OS UNIX System Services including USS/OMVS and automation involving UNIX processes and shell scripting.
• Experience integrating automation with monitoring and event management tools such as IBM OMEGAMON ServiceNow and Moogsoft.
• Experience managing monitoring and supporting mainframe and/or distributed systems business applications and infrastructure platforms.
• Experience identifying and implementing automation opportunities across IBM z/Series UNIX and Windows operating systems.
• Experience supporting high-availability recovery restart and self-healing automation solutions.
• Proven ability to reduce manual intervention improve operational reliability and deliver scalable automation solutions that support business services.

Desired

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Possess current awareness of professional standards innovations and industry best practices
• Experience with OMEGAMON situation development alerting and monitoring customization.
• Experience with GDPS and disaster recovery automation.
• Experience with SMP/E maintenance and z/OS system programming concepts.
• Familiarity with Ansible REST APIs and mainframe modernization technologies

Our benefits package includes:

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay
• 401(k) retirement plan
• and much more!

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