Mainframe Systems Programmer

Insight Global

United States

On-site

USD 96,000 - 110,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

A leading technology and healthcare services firm is seeking a Mainframe Systems Support professional to ensure system availability and support IBM z/OS environments. Responsibilities include managing CICS/MQ environments, troubleshooting issues, and participating in disaster recovery. Ideal candidates should have 3+ years in technical problem solving and mainframe programming skills. The position is full-time and offers benefits like medical and vision insurance, with a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

3+ years of experience with analyzing, designing, coding, testing, and implementing technical solutions.
Experience with CICS/MQ environments in a mainframe context.
Strong understanding of IBM Z Mainframe subsystems.

Responsibilities

Install, upgrade, and manage CICS/MQ environments.
Monitor health and troubleshoot CICS/MQ issues.
Participate in disaster recovery exercises.

Skills

Technical problem solving

Solution implementation

Team/project collaboration

Mainframe systems programming

CICS/MQ management

Tools

IBM z/OS

SMP/E

JCL

REXX programming

Job description

This range is provided by Insight Global. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$96,000.00/yr - $110,000.00/yr

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Must-Haves

3+ years of experience in one or many of the following tasks: analyzing, designing, coding, testing and implementing technical solutions, as well as providing general production support, meeting defined scope, target dates and budgets with minimal or no defects.
3+ years of technical problem solving, solution implementation, team/project collaboration experience.
3+ years of basic computer science concepts and principles, common operating systems, development languages/scripting.

Nice-to-Have

Experience in mainframe systems programmer with a focus on one or more of the following:

z/OS concepts and utilities
RACF
TSO
Plex Configurations
JES2
SMP/e
JCL
REXX programming

Day-to-Day

Insight Global is looking for a new member of a Mainframe Systems Support team and will primarily be accountable for ensuring a highly available mainframe system. This results-oriented job requires a solid understanding of mainframe sub-subsystems in a large scale parallel sysplex IBM zEnterprise environment.

Joining a team of team of 40 - 20 people are DBAs, 10 maintaining operating system, 10 are mainframe support.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Install, upgrade, and manage CICS/MQ environments in all test and production LPARs.
Monitor the health of the CICS/MQ environments and help troubleshoot issues to determine root cause.
Support the IBM Z Mainframe z/OS environment using SMP/E, ISPF/SDSF, USS, JES2, JCL, and IBM/third-party utilities.
Provide stable and secure mainframe sub-system support.
Maintain the sysplexed environment for CICS/MQ.
Participate in disaster recovery exercises.
Install and maintain third party software products related to CICS/MQ.
Build alerting and automation scripts.
Use performance reports/metrics to identify process/availability improvement opportunities.
Research and assess new technology for potential deployment.
Conduct troubleshooting and problem analysis.
Conduct change inspections; determine associated risks and readiness for implementation.
Available to work a flexible work schedule that would include infrastructure releases and on-call rotation.