Senior Mainframe Production Support Engineer (COBOL/DB2)

Life in Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Pittsburgh Tomorrow is hiring a Mainframe Developer – Production Support in Pittsburgh, PA to maintain and enhance critical legacy systems. You will provide L2/L3 production support for mainframe applications, monitor batch jobs, troubleshoot abends, and implement permanent fixes with COBOL/JCL/DB2/CICS expertise.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in mainframe environments, experience with ISPF/SDSF/VSAM, and familiarity with ITIL incident, problem and change management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in mainframe development/production support.
• Strong COBOL, JCL, DB2 & CICS skills are required.
• Experience with batch processing, job monitoring and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Provide L2/L3 production support for mainframe applications.
• Monitor batch jobs and troubleshoot abends.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes.
• Develop enhancements and bug fixes using COBOL, JCL, CICS and DB2.
• Optimize batch jobs and SQL queries.
• Support release and change management activities.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders.
• Participate in rotational on-call support.

Skills

CA7

Control-M

Autosys

COBOL

JCL

DB2

CICS

Mainframe Production Support

ISPF

SDSF

VSAM

File-AID

Xpediter

SPUFI

Batch Processing

Job Monitoring

Root Cause Analysis

Incident Management

DB2 SQL

Performance Tuning

Endevor

Changeman

ITIL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

ISPF

SDSF

Batch Scheduling Tools

Job description

Pittsburgh Tomorrow is hiring a Mainframe Developer – Production Support in Pittsburgh, PA to maintain and enhance critical legacy systems. You will provide L2/L3 production support for mainframe applications, monitor batch jobs, troubleshoot abends, and implement permanent fixes with COBOL/JCL/DB2/CICS expertise.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in mainframe environments, experience with ISPF/SDSF/VSAM, and familiarity with ITIL incident, problem and change management.