Mainframe Engineer

About the role

This position requires a strong ability to investigate operational, technical, and business problems to recommend reliable automation solutions. The role involves communicating complex system and automation information to technical teams, business partners, and upper management.

Responsibilities

• Investigate operational, technical, and business problems; analyze requirements; and recommend reliable automation solutions.
• Lead, guide, and mentor others while promoting technical best practices, process improvement, and operational efficiency.
• Develop enterprise automation solutions, command processors, automation routines, and operational tooling using REXX programming.
• Design, implement, and support automation across z/OS subsystems and middleware platforms such as CICS, Db2, IMS, JES2/JES3, MQ, and TCP/IP.
• Develop automation for CICS availability, recovery, startup, shutdown, restart, and health monitoring.
• Integrate automation with monitoring and event management tools such as IBM OMEGAMON, ServiceNow, and Moogsoft.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities across IBM z/Series, UNIX, and Windows operating systems.
• Support high-availability, recovery, restart, and self-healing automation solutions.
• Reduce manual intervention, improve operational reliability, and deliver scalable automation solutions.
• Participate in an on-call rotation as required.

Requirements

• Expert-level experience with IBM System Automation for z/OS, including administration, configuration, and policy development.
• Advanced REXX programming experience developing enterprise automation solutions.
• Strong experience with IBM NetView, including automation tables, message automation, and command lists.
• Experience with IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS, TWS, ZWS) and workload automation processes.
• Strong knowledge of Parallel Sysplex environments, cross-system automation concepts, JCL, SDSF, TSO/ISPF, and z/OS operations.
• Experience managing, monitoring, and supporting mainframe and/or distributed systems, business applications, and infrastructure platforms.

Qualifications

A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or equivalent combination of education and experience is preferred.

Skills

• IBM System Automation for z/OS
• REXX
• IBM NetView
• z/OS subsystems: CICS, Db2, IMS, JES2/JES3, MQ, TCP/IP
• IBM Workload Scheduler
• Familiarity with z/OS UNIX System Services (USS/OMVS)

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans. We also offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program, as well as a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan) and a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.