Mainframe Infrastructure Engineer - Remote

Location: Texas or Remote • Duration: 12 Months Contract

Responsibilities

• Provide daily operational monitoring to verify system availability, performance, and workload completion.
• Respond to incidents and alerts impacting production services, ensuring rapid recovery and service continuity.
• Work closely with application and development teams to support planning, testing, and production readiness.
• Perform problem determination by reviewing system logs, job output, and diagnostic information.
• Implement changes following established change and release management standards.
• Support ongoing operational stability and 7x24x365 support coverage.
• Mainframe z/OS System Software administration which involves Installation and Customization including PARMLIB updates.
• Install all ISV (Independent Software Vendor) products like Systemware JHS, LRS VPS and Chicago Soft QuickRef and provide ongoing support.
• DASD and Tape Storage support, EMC DLM Virtual Tape support, Storage Administration using IBM RMM and SMS administration.
• Provide next level support for our Scheduler Team and troubleshoot Batch job failures and take ZOS on call support.

Skills

• Operating System and Hardware Services
• Z/OS
• Storage
• Hardware
• Diaster Recovery
• Performance