Senior Mainframe Engineer

Navy Federal•Jacksonville, FL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Define, develop and implement Mainframe or distributed automation strategies and policies for eliminating manual intervention during the management of systems and workloads. Architect, Design and deliver automated solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the systems operations environment. Provide consulting support, standards and automation best practices to areas responsible for developing and deploying solutions. This position is eligible for the TalentQuest employee referral program. If an employee referred you for this job, please apply using the system-generated link that was sent to you.

Requirements

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.
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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Design and implement highly available Mainframe platform with emphasis on System Management in accordance with NFCU standards
Partner with the various technology teams to identify and reengineer processes as they onboard to the Mainframe platform
Lead the efforts to automate and orchestrate repeatable administration tasks.
Make necessary improvements to increase reliability and reusability
Drive industry standard on continuous process improvements
Develop thorough technical documentation including diagrams