Senior IBM Mainframe Automation Engineer / z/OS Systems Automation Engineer.
Location : Remote and Onsite Thrice a week ---- Vienna, VA
Duration : Long term ongoing with no end date
o Strong ability to investigate operational, technical, and business problems; analyze requirements; and recommend reliable automation solutions.
o Ability to communicate complex system and automation information clearly to technical teams, business partners, and upper management.
o Strong time management, prioritization, research, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
o Ability to participate in an on-call rotation, as required.
o Demonstrated ability to lead, guide, and mentor others while promoting technical best practices, process improvement, and operational efficiency.
o Expert-level experience with IBM System Automation for z/OS, including administration, configuration, policy development, managed resource automation, automation definitions, resource dependency models, and SA policy database maintenance.
o Advanced REXX programming experience developing enterprise automation solutions, command processors, automation routines, operational tooling, and automation scripts.
o Strong experience with IBM NetView, including automation tables, message automation, command lists, PIPEs, event processing, and policy-driven automation components.
o Experience designing, implementing, and supporting automation across z/OS subsystems and middleware platforms such as CICS, Db2, IMS, JES2/JES3, MQ, and TCP/IP.
o Experience developing automation for CICS availability, recovery, startup, shutdown, restart, and health monitoring.
o Strong knowledge of Parallel Sysplex environments, cross-system automation concepts, JCL, SDSF, TSO/ISPF, and z/OS operations.
o Experience with IBM Workload Scheduler, including IWS, TWS, ZWS, and workload automation processes.
o Familiarity with z/OS UNIX System Services, including USS/OMVS and automation involving UNIX processes and shell scripting.
o Experience integrating automation with monitoring and event management tools such as IBM OMEGAMON, ServiceNow, and Moogsoft.
o Experience managing, monitoring, and supporting mainframe and/or distributed systems, business applications, and infrastructure platforms.
o Experience identifying and implementing automation opportunities across IBM z/Series, UNIX, and Windows operating systems.
o Experience supporting high-availability, recovery, restart, and self-healing automation solutions.
o Proven ability to reduce manual intervention, improve operational reliability, and deliver scalable automation solutions that support business services.
Desired
o Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or equivalent combination of education and experience
o Possess current awareness of professional standards, innovations and industry best practices
o Experience with OMEGAMON situation development, alerting, and monitoring customization.
o Experience with GDPS and disaster recovery automation.
o Experience with SMP/E maintenance and z/OS system programming concepts.
Familiarity with Ansible, REST APIs, and mainframe modernization technologies
