Remote CA7 Mainframe Automation Engineer

ECS Resource Group; City Of London; Remote; GBP 88,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

ECS Resource Group requires a Mainframe Automation Engineer with strong CA7 expertise to join a remote, nine-month contract. You will manage CA7 job definitions, schedules and dependencies, monitor batch processing and drive automation to reduce manual tasks and improve reliability.

The role focuses on maintaining mainframe workloads, investigating production issues, and collaborating with application and infrastructure teams to ensure timely processing and controlled changes.

Qualifications

• Experience with CA7 in an IBM mainframe environment.
• Create and maintain batch schedules, dependencies and triggers.
• Strong knowledge of z/OS, JCL, and TSO/ISPF/SDSF.
• Experience diagnosing batch failures and supporting recovery.
• Experience developing or maintaining automation for mainframe workloads.
• Experience supporting production services within incident/change processes.
• Clear communication across support teams.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain and amend CA7 job definitions, schedules, calendars, triggers and dependencies.
• Monitor batch processing and resolve issues affecting production schedules.
• Develop automation to reduce manual tasks and improve workload management.
• Review dependencies and processing sequences to meet service deadlines.
• Investigate JCL and scheduling issues with application and infrastructure teams.
• Support controlled changes to production schedules and document them.
• Share operational knowledge with colleagues and support teams.

Skills

CA7

JCL

z/OS

TSO/ISPF

SDSF

Automation

Batch Scheduling

Job description

ECS Resource Group requires a Mainframe Automation Engineer with strong CA7 expertise to join a remote, nine-month contract. You will manage CA7 job definitions, schedules and dependencies, monitor batch processing and drive automation to reduce manual tasks and improve reliability.

The role focuses on maintaining mainframe workloads, investigating production issues, and collaborating with application and infrastructure teams to ensure timely processing and controlled changes.