Mainframe Developer

Merrifield, VA, US • Posted 7 hours ago • Updated 9 minutes ago
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Skills

  • Mainframe
  • REXX
  • z/os
  • NetView

Summary

Title: Mainframe Developer

Location: Merrifield, VA (3 days' on-site required)

Duration: 6-12 Month+ Contract

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Role Overview

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. The ideal candidate will demonstrate proficiency in leading, guiding, and mentoring others while promoting technical best practices and process improvement.

Key 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.

Required Qualifications

Experience:

  • 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.

Technical 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)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Experience with OMEGAMON situation development, alerting, and monitoring customization.
  • Experience with GDPS and disaster recovery automation.
  • Experience with SMP/E maintenance and z/OS system programming concepts.
  • Familiarity with Ansible, REST APIs, and mainframe modernization technologies.
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  • Dice Id: 91120142
  • Position Id: 2026-18558
  • Posted 7 hours ago

Company Info

About VeridianTech

Veridian Tech Solutions Houston based Cloud Consulting and IT Services firm specializing in Enterprise Mobility, Information Management, and Cloud-based solutions.

Founded in 2013, Veridian Tech Solutions was created to address the growing need for technology that enables businesses to be mobile and flexible in managing their applications and employees. As the market began transitioning into the Digital Era, Veridian realized that companies needed specific skill sets of technology expertise to provide their customers with new tools and services, create better ways for their employees to do their jobs, and do so in a modern, cost-effective way.

With decades of industry experience, Veridian's leadership team brought the expertise and guidance of extensive enterprise systems execution and project management expertise across numerous industries, and most importantly, the knowledge of what is required for a consultant to be effective.

Veridian builds its team by only selecting resources who have deep consulting experience, proven technical skills, and are highly proficient in specific sought-after areas of cutting-edge Mobility, Cloud, and Analytics technologies.

These cutting-edge skills we have often found are the gaps at organizations across North America, from mid-tier to Fortune 500, and at big 4 consulting firms as well. We work with our clients to comprehend their project requirements and utilize our experience to present the correct solutions and right resources.

We provide onshore services to North America, coordinated from our headquarters in Houston, and we provide offshore services from our Delivery center in New Delhi, India.

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