Rocket Enterprise/Cobol Developer

Rocket Enterprise Developer

Support a large-scale migration and ongoing development from an IBM mainframe environment to a Linux based AWS cloud platform using Rocket Software's Enterprise Server solution.

Responsibilities:

• Remediating and refactoring legacy COBOL applications
• Ensuring programs compile and execute correctly within Rocket Enterprise Developer and Enterprise Server
• Converting and validating JCL and control cards
• Resolving defects identified during parallel testing
• Supporting deployments and post cutover stabilization activities
• Interacting with app support and other dev teams on standards, process and procedures for mainframe development
• Training and onboarding new developers from partner companies
• Supporting the transition from migration project work into ongoing application support

Requirements:

• 5+ years of COBOL and CICS application development
  • Hands on coding, debugging, and unit testing
  • Experience working in a modernized, non-mainframe COBOL environment
  • Ability to write JCL, PROCS and Control cards and execute them
• Rocket Enterprise Developer (formerly Micro Focus)
  • Building, compiling, and debugging COBOL applications
  • Experience using Eclipse or Visual Studio IDE
• Rocket Enterprise Server
  • Deploying COBOL applications to the platform
  • Troubleshooting runtime issues
  • Partnering with infrastructure and administration teams

Preferred:

• IBM Mainframe experience
• Legacy system modernization
• Linux
  • Command line experience
  • File system navigation
  • Basic scripting
  • Log analysis and troubleshooting
  • Code promotion across environments
• AWS Cloud
  • Understanding of COBOL workloads running on Linux in AWS
  • Familiarity with cloud hosted application environments

This is a 4-month Contract opportunity. 100% Paid employee Medical/Dental Benefits, Paid time off, Paid Holidays, and 401(k) (with immediately vested company match) available with TriCom during the contract period. H1-B Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. No third-parties, please.