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If this is something you'd be interested in hearing more details on, please apply directly or send your updated resume to John Baer at with a subject line "Mainframe Engineer Opening".
Notes from the Manager:- Really the only skillset is IMS and they are flexible beyond that.
- Infrastructure background- not application side.
- Looking for someone for z/OS team.
- Looking for someone with deep IMS skills.
- Infra engineer will be giving the vendor direction on the architecture and POC and have the vendor complete the implementation while overseeing it.
- They need someone who can drive the projects and doesn't need any hand holding.
- IMS Experience
- z/OS
- Infrastructure Background
- Engineering large/complex projects with a variety of components and integration points with a specialty in IMS (Information Management System) on z/OS
- Interact with business and vendor partners to better understand their objectives, technical landscape and/or how to identify and solve complex problems/issues
- Interact with Infrastructure and Application Engineers and Architects to exploit modern mainframe technologies such as, Java, Encryption, Sysplex, Hybrid Cloud, High Availability, Active/Active and mainframe networking
- Work with Engineers to define solution requirements, perform coding and/or hands-on technical implementation
- Conduct infrastructure performance and security assessments
- Provide internal analysis and support to ensure proper escalation during outages or periods of degraded system performance
- Participate in brainstorming and discovery exercises to determine new technologies based on research, proof of concept efforts and independent investigation
- Ensure engineering is consistent with enterprise engineering standards, guidelines and principles
- Actively participate in team architecture and engineering discussions and forums as a prominent contributor
- Employs technical expertise to help team members overcome technical problems during production outages and solution delivery
- Ensures compliance with technical, architectural, regulatory, and strategic standards, policies, and procedures
- Actively modernizes platforms and applications using current agile practices (dev/ops)
- 8+years engineering experience in a complex mainframe environment
- Experience with design and implementation of mainframe and distributed applications
- Experience with mainframe infrastructure, z-platform and z/OS technologies hardware and operating systems, application development and control of mainframe architecture, middleware and tooling
- Advance knowledge and experience with IMS (Information Management System), especially in the capacity of a systems programmer
- Experience within depth problem solving, analytical analysis, reporting and presentation to senior leaders and key stakeholders
- Demonstrated exemplary personal integrity and ability to build trust and collaborate across an organization
- A superior ability to motivate and inspire team members to deliver on commitments
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt a message to the appropriate audience
- Strong strategic thinking and decision-making skills
Vacancy expired!