Mainframe Positions
Dallas, TX Onsite
Position | Role | Openings | Location | Skills / Requirements |
Position 1 | z/OS Systems Programmer / System Admin Lead | 1 | US | Mainframe Production Services Lead, Team Management |
Position 2 | DB2 DBA | 1 | US | DB2, SFTP, JRB |
Position 3 | Storage Administrator | 1 | US | System Automation, Disaster Recovery, IWS, Storage Administration |
Position 4 | Mainframe Infrastructure Engineer (z/OS + Storage + Hardware + DR + Performance) | 1 | US | Mainframe Production Services Lead, Team Management |
Position 5 | Mainframe DevOps / Modernization Engineer | 1 | US | Mainframe Production Services Lead, Team Management |
Resource 1 Onsite
Primary Platforms: Mainframe Production Services (1st Line Management)
Support Model: First Shift / 7x24x365
- Supervise the IT-I Platform Services Mainframe Production Services Team
- Provide 7x24x365 incident response, addressing outages, errors, and performance issues.
- Work closely with developers on planning, testing, and troubleshooting across development, test, QA, and production.
- Conduct problem determination using logs, diagnostics, and system data to resolve issues effectively.
- Implement approved system changes in compliance with enterprise change management processes.
- Support and perform annual software upgrades for assigned systems across all environments.
- Ensure continuous availability and reliability, prioritizing rapid recovery and service continuity.
Resource 2 Onsite
Primary Platforms: DB2, SFTP, JRB
Support Model: First Shift / 7x24x365
- Monitor platform health for DB2 subsystems, SFTP services, and JRB processing across development, test, QA, and production environments.
- Respond to incidents and alerts impacting DB2, file transfers, or job processing, providing timely problem determination and resolution.
- Work with developers on planning, testing, and troubleshooting issues related to DB2 access, SFTP transfers, and JRB job execution.
- Analyze failures and errors by reviewing logs, job output, and system messages to identify root cause and corrective actions.
- Execute approved changes for TTERM, DB2, SFTP, and JRB in accordance with change management standards.
- Perform and support annual software upgrades for DB2, SFTP, and JRB across all environments.
- Maintain availability and data integrity, ensuring services remain stable and recoveries are completed correctly.
Resource 3 Onsite
Primary Platforms: System Automation, Disaster Recovery, IWS, Storage Administration
Support Model: First Shift / 7x24x365
- Monitor platform health for System Automation subsystems and Storage Administration across development, test, QA, and production environments.
- Respond to incidents and alerts impacting System Automation, Storage Administration and IWS, providing timely problem determination and resolution.
- Work with staff on planning, testing, and troubleshooting issues related to System Automation, Storage Administration, IWS, and Disaster Recovery.
- Analyze failures and errors by reviewing logs, job output, and system messages to identify root cause and corrective actions.
- Execute approved changes for System Automation and IWS in accordance with change management standards.
- Maintain availability and data integrity, ensuring services remain stable and recoveries are completed correctly.
- Support annual software upgrades for Z/OS across all environments.
Resource 4 Onsite
Primary Platforms: Operating System and Hardware Services
Support Model: First Shift / 7x24x365
- Provide daily operational monitoring to verify system availability, performance, and workload completion.
- Respond to incidents and alerts impacting production services, ensuring rapid recovery and service continuity.
- Work closely with application and development teams to support planning, testing, and production readiness.
- Perform problem determination by reviewing system logs, job output, and diagnostic information.
- Implement changes following established change and release management standards.
- Support ongoing operational stability and 7x24x365 support coverage.
- Mainframe z/OS System Software administration which involves Installation and Customization including PARMLIB updates.
- Install all ISV (Independent Software Vendor) products like Systemware JHS, LRS VPS and Chicago Soft QuickRef and provide ongoing support.
- DASD and Tape Storage support, EMC DLM Virtual Tape support, Storage Administration using IBM RMM and SMS administration.
- Provide next level support for our Scheduler Team and troubleshoot Batch job failures and take ZOS on call support.
Resource 5 Onsite
Primary Platforms: Operating System and Hardware Services
Support Model: First Shift / 7x24x365 (Contractor)
- Perform daily monitoring of assigned systems to validate availability, performance, and workload execution.
- Provide incident response and recovery support for production services on a 7x24x365 basis.
- Collaborate with developers and application teams during testing, deployment, and troubleshooting efforts.
- Analyze system issues using logs, messages, and job output to determine root cause.
- Implement approved system and operational changes following change management guidelines.
- Ensure systems remain stable, recoverable, and aligned with service expectations.
- Planning and installation of IBM Mainframes, DISK and Tape Hardware which includes Hardware Configuration and IOGENs.
- Plan and install z/OS Operating System, apply maintenance, and IBM products (COBOL, Netview, System Automation, CICS, Db2, MQ, RACF, OMEGAMON) etc).
- Storage Administration using SMS, RMM, HSM.
- Setup replication of Storage (Disk and Tape) and perform Disaster Recovery.
- Performance Management and tuning using SMF, RMF, WLM etc.
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