IBM z/OS Mainframe Engineer

Description

• 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 Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 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.