Rocket Enterprise Developer

Summary

Client is seeking a Rocket Enterprise Developer to support a large-scale migration and ongoing development from an IBM mainframe environment to a Linux-based AWS Cloud platform using Rocket software's enterprise server solution. This is a development-focused role.

Responsibilities

• Remediate and refactor legacy COBOL applications.
• Ensure programs compile and execute correctly within Rocket enterprise developer and enterprise server.
• Convert and validate JCL and control cards.
• Resolve defects identified during parallel testing.
• Support deployments and post-cutover stabilization activities.
• Interact with app support and other dev teams on standards, processes, and procedures for mainframe development.
• Train and onboard new developers from partner companies.
• Support the transition from migration project work into ongoing application support.

Requirements

• 5+ years of COBOL and CICS application development experience including:
• Hands-on coding, debugging, and unit testing experience;
• Working in a modernized, non-mainframe COBOL environment;
• Ability to write JCL, PROCS, and control cards and execute them.
• Experience with Rocket Enterprise Developer (formerly Micro Focus) including:
• Building, compiling, and debugging COBOL applications;
• Using Eclipse or Visual Studio IDE.
• Experience with Rocket Enterprise Server including:
• Deploying COBOL applications to the platform;
• Troubleshooting runtime issues;
• Partnering with infrastructure and administration teams.

Preferred

• IBM Mainframe experience.
• Experience with legacy system modernization.
• Experience with Linux, specifically:
• Command line experience;
• File system navigation;
• Basic scripting;
• Log analysis and troubleshooting;
• Code promotion across environments.
• Experience with AWS Cloud, specifically:
• Solid understanding of COBOL workloads running on Linux in AWS;
• Familiarity with cloud-hosted application environments.