Mainframe DevOps Engineer - z/OS CI/CD for Payments

Jobtailor; Utrecht; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Utrecht, Netherlands seeks a DevOps Engineer with a strong z/OS background to enhance payment systems. You will automate mainframe tasks, improve CI/CD pipelines and collaborate with DevOps teams across environments.

The role emphasizes stability, scalability, and compliance within a business-critical mainframe ecosystem, leveraging Git, Ansible, Python, and Java in a modern automation stack.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience as a DevOps engineer, software engineer, technical administrator or functional application administrator.
• Mainframe background, preferably in system management.
• Knowledge of z/OS and preferably CICS, MQ, DB2, DataPower or COBOL.
• Experience automating mainframe tasks, preferably in a DevOps context.
• Knowledge of modern automation and CI/CD technologies such as Git, Ansible, Python, Java, pipeline automation and tooling in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages such as COBOL, Java or Python.
• Understanding of business processes, applications and underlying infrastructure within a large organisation.
• Analytical, customer-focused and results-driven.
• Ability to move between people, processes and technology.
• A security check is part of the process.

Responsibilities

• Improve systems supporting millions of payment transactions.
• Make z/OS environments more stable, modern and scalable.
• Improve version control, deployment, automation and delivery pipelines.
• Work closely with DevOps teams in Payment Solutions.
• Design, build, test and implement improvements to tooling and pipelines.
• Build modern CI/CD solutions for z/OS applications.
• Support development teams with complex technical integration challenges across applications and environments.
• Automate mainframe tasks within a DevOps context.
• Safeguard quality, continuity and compliance in a highly available, business-critical environment.
• Contribute to an Agile way of working.
• Collaborate within APF Generic Infrastructural Services to modernise and future-proof the mainframe environment.

Skills

DevOps Engineering

Z/OS System Management

CI/CD Automation

Mainframe Automation

Agile Methodologies

Analytical

Customer-Focused

Results-Driven

Adaptability

Education

Higher professional education (HBO)

Tools

Git

Ansible

Python

Java

Job description

Jobtailor in Utrecht, Netherlands seeks a DevOps Engineer with a strong z/OS background to enhance payment systems. You will automate mainframe tasks, improve CI/CD pipelines and collaborate with DevOps teams across environments.

The role emphasizes stability, scalability, and compliance within a business-critical mainframe ecosystem, leveraging Git, Ansible, Python, and Java in a modern automation stack.