Title: IBM z/OS Mainframe Engineer
Department: Non-Digital
Location: Hybrid in Vienna, VA or Winchester, VA or REMOTE

Experience Level: 10+ years
Rate: Hybrid@ Vienna, VA or Winchester, VA or REMOTE 
Seeking an experienced Mainframe Automation Engineer with strong hands-on
expertise in IBM System Automation for z/OS, IBM NetView, and advanced
REXX scripting to develop, maintain, and optimize enterprise mainframe
automation solutions.
Description:
 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.
Desired
 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