Mainframe Automation Engineer
Infosys
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Job summary
Infosys is seeking an Automation Engineer to design, develop, and support automation across environment and performance teams. The role focuses on streamlining batch operations, data refresh, monitoring, reporting, and operational support using mainframe and enterprise automation technologies.
You will leverage JCL, REXX, COBOL, ESP, OPS/MVS, and Ansible to reduce manual effort, improve efficiency, and enhance reliability of test environments. Collaboration with offshore/onshore teams is key.
Qualifications
- Experience with IBM z/OS mainframe environments and batch processing.
- Hands-on development with JCL and REXX.
- Experience in ESP workload automation and scheduling.
- Familiar with COBOL, CICS, and DB2 environments.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Identify opportunities to automate batch processing and test env support.
- Design, develop, test, and implement automation using JCL/REXX/COBOL/OPS/MVS/Ansible.
- Automate data refresh, environment maintenance, and monitoring.
- Create automated KPIs, dashboards, and reporting.
- Collaborate with Mainframe Automation and Performance teams.
- Support CICS and DB2 processes through automation.
- Develop automation-related documentation and standards.
- Participate in release planning to align with business needs.
Skills
Education
Tools
Job description
The Automation Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and supporting automation solutions within the Environment and Automation Performance team. This role will focus on streamlining batch operations, data refresh activities, monitoring processes, reporting functions, and operational support tasks through the use of mainframe and enterprise automation technologies.
The individual will leverage technologies including JCL, REXX, COBOL, ESP, OPS/MVS, and Ansible to eliminate manual effort, improve operational efficiency, and enhance the reliability of test environment services. The Automation Engineer will work closely with application teams, infrastructure teams, offshore support personnel, onshore developers, and management to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and operational transformation.
- Identify and evaluate opportunities to automate batch processing and test environment support activities.
- Design, develop, test, and implement automation solutions using REXX, JCL, COBOL, OPS/MVS, and Ansible.
- Automate recurring data refresh processes and environment maintenance activities.
- Develop automated monitoring, alerting, and recovery solutions for batch workloads.
- Create automation workflows to reduce manual operational effort and improve service reliability.
- Support and enhance workload scheduling and automation functions within ESP.
- Develop scripts and tools to improve batch job management, reporting, and operational visibility.
- Analyze existing support procedures and recommend automation opportunities.
- Collaborate with the Mainframe Automation and Performance team.
- Support CICS and DB2 application processes through automation and process optimization.
- Automate KPI collection, reporting, dashboard generation, and operational metrics.
- Assist in root cause analysis and implement automated preventive solutions for recurring incidents.
- Develop and maintain automation-related documentation, standards, procedures, and knowledge articles.
- Participate in release planning and implementation activities to ensure automation solutions align with business requirements.
- Promote automation best practices and continuous improvement across the support organization.
- Evaluate emerging automation technologies and recommend improvements to current processes and tooling.
- Experience supporting IBM z/OS mainframe environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with JCL and REXX development.
- Experience with mainframe batch processing and workload automation.
- Experience with ESP workload automation and scheduling.
- Experience with OPS/MVS automation solutions.
- Experience developing automation scripts and workflows.
- Knowledge of COBOL, CICS, and DB2 environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience troubleshooting complex operational and batch processing issues.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively across multiple technical teams.
- Experience with Ansible Automation Platform, including Ansible for z/OS.
- Experience with COBOL, JCL, Assembler, and EasyTrieve.
- Experience automating data refresh and environment management processes.
- Experience in creating automated operational reporting and KPI dashboards.
- Knowledge of ChangeMan and release management processes.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise mainframe environments.
- Bachelor of Engineering
- BTech
- Mainframe Technologies
- Cloud Infrastructure Services
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