Lead z/OS Systems Engineer: Mainframe & DR

U.S. Bank; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 105,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) and company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a z/OS Systems Programmer with extensive mainframe experience to lead installations, upgrades, and tuning of z/OS and third-party software.

You will join a team supporting a robust mainframe environment across multiple data centers, driving modernization and reliability initiatives. Responsibilities include deploying SMP/E, maintaining subsystems like CICS, IMS, MQ, and Db2, and collaborating with security and capacity teams to ensure peak performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• At least 5 years in an IT environment and 10 years in design, development and support of technology infrastructure.
• Extensive experience administering IBM z/OS in large-scale Parallel Sysplex environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead installation, configuration, maintenance, and lifecycle management of IBM z/OS across multiple Sysplex environments.
• Develop and execute z/OS upgrade and maintenance methodologies using SMP/E.
• Troubleshoot complex z/OS system and performance issues with root-cause analysis.
• Administer JES2, CICS, IMS, MQ, and Db2 subsystems.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure performance and availability.
• Support DR planning, testing, and recovery operations.
• Maintain system documentation and diagrams; provide 24x7 on-call support.

Skills

z/OS expertise

IBM z/OS

CICS

IMS

JES2

MQ

Db2

RMF

MainView

REXX scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

SMP/E

Broadcom (CA)

Compuware

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a z/OS Systems Programmer with extensive mainframe experience to lead installations, upgrades, and tuning of z/OS and third-party software.

You will join a team supporting a robust mainframe environment across multiple data centers, driving modernization and reliability initiatives. Responsibilities include deploying SMP/E, maintaining subsystems like CICS, IMS, MQ, and Db2, and collaborating with security and capacity teams to ensure peak performance.