Overview
Remote
$60 - $70
Full Time
Skills
Application Support
CICS
Budget
Capacity Management
Data Link Layer
Change Management
High Availability
IBM DB2
Incident Management
Performance Tuning
Mainframe
Reliability Engineering
Software Development
Software Development Methodology
System Integration Testing
ROOT
DevOps
z/OS
Job Details
A Mainframe Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) applies software engineering principles to mainframe operations to enhance system reliability, scalability, and efficiency. Acting as a bridge between development and operations, the mainframe SRE focuses on automation, proactive monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization of mission-critical mainframe systems.
Key responsibilities typically include:
- Automating repetitive operational tasks to reduce manual intervention and human error
- Enhancing monitoring, observability, and alerting to improve incident detection and response
- Ensuring high availability and stability of mainframe environments (e.g., z/OS, CICS, Db2, IMS)
- Collaborating with development teams to integrate mainframe systems into the full software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Applying modern SRE principles (e.g., SLIs, SLOs, error budgets) within the context of legacy infrastructure
- Participating in capacity planning, change management, and root cause analysis
The role requires a blend of mainframe expertise and modern DevOps/SRE practices, contributing to the evolution and resilience of enterprise systems that support high-volume, business-critical applications.
Note- I am looking for some additional folks to round out a MF "SRE Team". This is a team that will sit in between infrastructure and application support teams, These should be SRE types for mainframe. Proactive people who really know their stuff. Doers (L2.5-ish), not just low-level L2
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