Senior Mainframe Automation Engineer

Navy Federal Credit Union; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Navy Federal Credit Union in Virginia Beach area seeks a Senior Mainframe Automation Engineer to design, implement and manage automation strategies across z/OS and distributed platforms. You will reduce manual tasks and improve operational efficiency.

Responsibilities include collaborating with tech teams, delivering robust automation solutions, documenting architectures, and guiding best practices. On-site role with on-call rotation and a focus on reliability and scalability.

Qualifications

• Expert-level experience with IBM System Automation for z/OS, including policy development and SA database maintenance.
• Advanced REXX programming for enterprise automation, command processors, and automation scripts.
• Strong experience with IBM NetView, including automation tables, message automation, and policy-driven components.
• Experience across z/OS subsystems and middleware (CICS, Db2, IMS, JES2/JES3, MQ, TCP/IP).
• Experience developing automation for CICS availability, recovery, startup, shutdown, restart, and health monitoring.
• Knowledge of Parallel Sysplex, cross-system automation, JCL, SDSF, TSO/ISPF, and z/OS operations.
• Experience with IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS/TWS/ZWS) and workload automation processes.
• Familiarity with z/OS UNIX System Services and UNIX scripting for automation.
• Experience integrating automation with monitoring and event tools (OMEGAMON, ServiceNow, Moogsoft).
• Proven ability to reduce manual intervention and improve reliability through scalable automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available Mainframe platform with emphasis on System Management in line with NFCU standards.
• Partner with technology teams to reengineer processes onboarding to the Mainframe platform.
• Lead efforts to automate and orchestrate repeatable administration tasks and improve reliability.
• Drive industry standard improvements in continuous process optimization.
• Develop thorough technical documentation and diagrams for solutions.

Skills

System Automation z/OS

REXX scripting

IBM NetView

CICS/DB2/IMS/MQ

JCL/SDSF/TSO

z/OS UNIX

OMEGAMON monitoring

Automation design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

IBM OMEGAMON

ServiceNow

Moogsoft

Ansible

GDPS

Job description

Navy Federal Credit Union in Virginia Beach area seeks a Senior Mainframe Automation Engineer to design, implement and manage automation strategies across z/OS and distributed platforms. You will reduce manual tasks and improve operational efficiency.

Responsibilities include collaborating with tech teams, delivering robust automation solutions, documenting architectures, and guiding best practices. On-site role with on-call rotation and a focus on reliability and scalability.