Mainframe SRE Engineer

Hybrid in Columbus, OH, US • Posted 26 days ago • Updated 26 days ago

Contract W2

Contract Independent

Hybrid

$45 - $65/hr

K-Tek Resourcing LLC

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Skills

Application Development
Mainframe
z/OS
Scripting

Summary

Job Title: Mainframe Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead

Role Summary

The Mainframe SRE Lead is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, performance, and scalability of enterprise mainframe platforms. This role blends traditional mainframe engineering with modern SRE principles, focusing on automation, observability, incident management, and continuous improvement. The lead will guide a team of engineers while partnering closely with application, infrastructure, and operations teams.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the Mainframe SRE team, providing technical direction, mentoring, and performance guidance
Own the reliability, availability, and resilience of mainframe environments (z/OS and related subsystems)
Define and implement SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and reliability metrics
Drive automation to reduce manual operations, improve recovery time, and enhance system stability
Oversee monitoring, alerting, and observability for mainframe systems using modern and legacy tools
Lead incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews
Partner with application development teams to improve reliability, performance, and deployment practices
Plan and execute capacity management, performance tuning, and workload optimization
Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and audit requirements
Lead disaster recovery (DR) planning, testing, and high-availability strategies
Champion continuous improvement, DevOps, and SRE culture within mainframe operations

Required Qualifications

10+ years of experience in mainframe systems engineering or operations
Strong hands-on expertise with IBM z/OS
Experience with core mainframe components such as:
- CICS, IMS, DB2
- JES2/JES3
- MQ, SMF, SDSF
Solid understanding of mainframe performance tuning and capacity planning
Experience leading production support and managing major incidents
Strong scripting and automation skills (REXX, JCL, CLIST, Python, or equivalent)
Familiarity with monitoring and scheduling tools (e.g., OMEGAMON, CA/BMC tools, Control-M)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience applying SRE principlesin a mainframe or hybrid (mainframe + distributed) environment
Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD, and automation frameworks
Knowledge of Linux on Z and cloud integration patterns

Experience with resilience engineering, chaos testing, or fault

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Dice Id: 10411276
Position Id: 8865278
Posted 26 days ago

Company Info

About K-Tek Resourcing LLC

Vision

To be a trusted partner and advisor to our customers

Mission

At K-Tek we believe in understanding the specific needs of the customer and tailor-creating innovative solutions to meet these needs. We invest in our employees and customers. We build a relation of trust with our customers through empathy, solutions and being the first time right.

Who We Are & What We Do

K-Tek Resourcing is a consulting organization with offices in Houston TX and St. Paul, MN. It is supported by 2 global delivery centers, located in India. With its global employee strength of over 250, K-Tek has been supporting its clients for over 9 years. We have been consistently achieving a growth of 30% Year on Year. We have an extensive experience of working in domains including BFSI, Retail, Healthcare and Pharma, Oil & Gas, Travel & Hospitality and Insurance. The technologies we service are IT Infrastructure, Mobile Technologies, Cloud & Big Data Solutions. We understand the needs of our customers and provide them with customized solutions and resources with the tenet of being the "First Time Right".

Values

-Commitment to our customers success through Integrity

-Excellence through Quality

-Growth through customer value creation

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