Role: Mainframe Consultant (W2 Requirement)
Location: Nashville, TN / Lake Mary, FL / Pittsburgh, PA / Sommerset, NJ (Onsite)
Duration: Long Term
Note: Need 10+ Years of experienced candidates.
Job Description:
Own the mainframe automation strategy and roadmap to improve reliability, detection, and recovery.
Scale automated solutions across infrastructure domains (batch, storage, networking, middleware) using APIs, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.
Architect and govern multi-site failover automation; maintain and test DR playbooks and runbooks.
Define and operationalize SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and alerting standards; reduce MTTA/MTTR through event correlation and automated remediation.
Instill disciplined engineering: peer reviews, version control, change management gates, and automation standards aligned to risk/compliance.
Build and lead a high-performing team; develop talent in REXX, z/OS automation, DevOps, and integration.
Partner across platforms, applications, cyber, risk, and compliance to prioritize automation investments that reduce toil and operational risk.
Own KPIs and continuous improvement cycles; communicate performance, risks, and outcomes to senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Technical leadership and hands-on guidance in:
Mainframe automation frameworks and system state management
Expert-level REXX scripting; deep z/OS operating environment expertise
Designing/supporting automated failover in multi-site environments
RESTful APIs and systems integration for orchestration
DevOps tooling (e.g., Jenkins including Zowe plug-in, Ansible) and CI/CD for mainframe workloads
ServiceNow ITSM workflows and automation
AIOps/event-management platforms (e.g., Moogsoft or equivalent)
SQL, JCL, ISPF/TSO and related toolchains
Governance, risk, and controls:
Strong change control discipline (Git, peer reviews, deployment safeguards)
High-quality documentation: runbooks, process/architecture standards
Alignment with audit and compliance requirements
Stakeholder and vendor management:
Partner with infrastructure leaders and vendors; drive outcomes via SLAs and measurable KPIs
Translate functional requirements into automation workflows; steward solution documentation and training
Operations ownership:
Troubleshoot and drive root-cause fixes; prepare detailed problem reports
Resilience/DR: hands-on experience with GDPS and Safeguarded Copy
Collaborate on performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost efficiency
Leadership Expectations:
Lead engineers/SREs with clear objectives, coaching, and succession planning; foster documentation and knowledge sharing.
Shape automation standards across technology services group ; align priorities to business outcomes and risk posture.
Present strategy, results, and risks to senior technology leadership; influence cross-platform adoption.
Practice financial stewardship for tooling, licensing, and infrastructure; identify savings via automation and improved change success rates.
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