Mainframe Consultant at Riverwoods, IL || Hybrid ||

Mainframe Support Engineer

Mainframe Support Engineer position requires a strong background in mainframe engineering, batch job scheduling, and monitoring. Key responsibilities include:

• Design, develop, and maintain batch job schedules using IBM Scheduler (OPC), Autosys, and Maestro.
• Monitor daily batch processing cycles, troubleshooting and resolving scheduling and batch job failures collaboratively with other teams.
• Optimize workflows to prevent bottlenecks and improve performance by reviewing job dependencies and documenting batch job workflows, schedules, and operational procedures.

Skills required for this role include:

• Mainframe batch application support or development knowledge to fix batch issues with good hands-on skills on Mainframe - COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2. REXX, Endeavor, OPC scheduler, Autosys, Maestro.
• Mainframe engineering support and maintenance of mainframe environments to ensure efficient and reliable batch job execution.
• Regular health checks and performance tuning for mainframe batch processing, participation in mainframe upgrades, migrations, and disaster recovery testing.
• Collaboration with application, infrastructure, and operations teams to coordinate batch job changes and deployments, providing on-call support for critical production batch cycles, and offering technical guidance and knowledge transfer to junior team members and peers.
• Identifying opportunities to automate manual processes, reduce errors, and improve overall system efficiency, staying updated with the latest mainframe technologies, scheduling tools, and industry best practices.