Mainframe Developer
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Contract Independent
12 Months
No Travel Required
On-site
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Skills
- mainframe developer
- z/os
Summary
Title: Mainframe Developer
Location: Merrifield, VA
Duration: 6-12 Month+ Contract
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
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
- Dice Id: 10504943
- Position Id: 4142-12901-1787082719
- Posted 8 hours ago
Company Info
About DKMRBH Inc.
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At DKMRBH Inc. we understand the importance of work to our clients & aspire to honor all of our commitments to them. Deep technical & functional expertise in every aspect of the Enterprise management: Our senior management team brings a wealth of experience in leading companies, delivering a consistent record of positive results. This stems directly from our devotion to sustain, mutually benefit & build long-term relationships with our clients,
At DKMRBH Inc. we understand the importance of work to our clients & aspire to honor all of our commitments to them. Deep technical & functional expertise in every aspect of the Enterprise management: Our senior management team brings a wealth of experience in leading companies, delivering a consistent record of positive results. This stems directly from our devotion to sustain, mutually benefit & build long-term relationships with our clients,
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