Mainframe Engineer

Mainframe Engineer - Contract - Vienna, VA/Hybrid - $80.00 - $85.00/hr.

The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's/applicant's qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a Mainframe Engineer in Vienna, VA/Hybrid.

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or equivalent combination of education and experience
Possess current awareness of professional standards, innovations and industry best practices
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
Strong ability to investigate operational, technical, and business problems; analyze requirements; and recommend reliable automation solutions.
Ability to communicate complex system and automation information clearly to technical teams, business partners, and upper management.
Strong time management, prioritization, research, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to participate in an on-call rotation, as required.
Demonstrated ability to lead, guide, and mentor others while promoting technical best practices, process improvement, and operational efficiency.
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.
Advanced REXX programming experience developing enterprise automation solutions, command processors, automation routines, operational tooling, and automation scripts.
Strong experience with IBM NetView, including automation tables, message automation, command lists, PIPEs, event processing, and policy-driven automation components.
Experience designing, implementing, and supporting automation across z/OS subsystems and middleware platforms such as CICS, Db2, IMS, JES2/JES3, MQ, and TCP/IP.
Experience developing automation for CICS availability, recovery, startup, shutdown, restart, and health monitoring.
Strong knowledge of Parallel Sysplex environments, cross-system automation concepts, JCL, SDSF, TSO/ISPF, and z/OS operations.
Experience with IBM Workload Scheduler, including IWS, TWS, ZWS, and workload automation processes.
Familiarity with z/OS UNIX System Services, including USS/OMVS and automation involving UNIX processes and shell scripting.
Experience integrating automation with monitoring and event management tools such as IBM OMEGAMON, ServiceNow, and Moogsoft.
Experience managing, monitoring, and supporting mainframe and/or distributed systems, business applications, and infrastructure platforms.
Experience identifying and implementing automation opportunities across IBM z/Series, UNIX, and Windows operating systems.
Experience supporting high-availability, recovery, restart, and self-healing automation solutions.
Proven ability to reduce manual intervention, improve operational reliability, and deliver scalable automation solutions that support business services.
10+ years exp
IBM System Automation for z/OS (SA z/OS): Administration, Configuration, Policy development, Resource automation, Dependency modeling, SA policy database maintenance
Advanced REXX Programming: Need someone who has actually built automation solutions, not just edited scripts.
IBM NetView: Automation tables, Message automation, Command Lists (CLISTs), PIPEs, Event processing
z/OS Mainframe Operations: deep knowledge of z/OS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, JES2/JES3, Parallel Sysplex
Mainframe Middleware Automation
CICS Automation
IBM Workload Scheduler
Monitoring & Event Management
Unix / USS

Benefits/Other Compensation

Medical, Dental, Life Insurance, 401K.

Why Hays?

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