Senior zOS System Programmer - Remote

Truist; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k plan

Vacation days

Sick days

Paid holidays

Pension plan

RSUs

Deferred compensation

Job summary

Truist is seeking a senior z/OS System Programmer to support mainframe z/OS releases, maintenance, and OEM installations. You will diagnose incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate with vendors to resolve complex issues.

You will mentor teammates, contribute to design reviews, and help sustain enterprise infrastructure with automation and best practices. A strong mainframe background and collaboration with cross-functional teams are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• Minimum 5 years of professional infrastructure or mainframe experience.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies including cloud, network, and storage.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements enterprise infrastructure across cloud, network, database and middleware domains.
• Applies automation and monitoring to ensure high availability and performance.
• Resolves complex infrastructure issues with root-cause analysis.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to implement new technologies.
• Provides guidance to junior engineers and reviews designs and procedures.

Skills

z/OS System Programmer

Mainframe infrastructure

Problem diagnosis

Root-cause analysis

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

z/OS SMP/E

IBM Mainframe

RACF

HMCs/LPARs

Job description

Regular or Temporary: Regular Language Fluency: English (Required) Work Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Our Mainframe Engineering team is looking for an experienced, senior level zOS System Programmer to help with zOS new release installs, maintenance and OEM installs. More specifically, this role will require problem tracking, diagnosis and root-cause analysis, replication, troubleshooting, and resolution for complex issues. And in this capacity, perform programming and debugging activities. This engineer will also be responsible for responding to issues in a timely manner by receiving and investigating incidents or service tickets and may engage and manage outside vendors. Lastly, this engineer will act as a resource for teammates with less experience. *Please note that for this opportunity, Truist will not sponsor an applicant for work visa status or employment authorization, nor will we offer any immigration‑related support for this position (including, but not limited to H‑1B, F‑1 OPT, F‑1 STEM OPT, F‑1 CPT, J‑1, TN‑1 or TN‑2, E‑3, O‑1, or future sponsorship for U.S. lawful permanent residence status.)

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

1. Designs, builds, and implements enterprise infrastructure technology platforms and systems across cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, or middleware domains.
2. Applies automation, monitoring, and optimization techniques to ensure high availability and performance of infrastructure.
3. Manages infrastructure engineering projects and processes aligned with organizational policies and regulatory requirements.
4. Collaborates with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to integrate new technologies and continuously improve infrastructure standards and processes.
5. Troubleshoots and resolves complex technical issues impacting infrastructure performance and reliability.
6. Supports compliance with technology strategies, standards, and governance to mitigate risks and ensure regulatory adherence.
7. Reviews and guides infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures to support operational consistency and knowledge sharing.
8. Provides technical guidance and direction to lower-level technical professionals.
9. Develops technical solutions with deep analysis of infrastructure systems and leads infrastructure processes.

Qualifications Required Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, a related field, or equivalent education, training, and work‑related experience.
2. Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering.
3. Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies including cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, and middleware.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Banking or financial services experience.
2. z/OS, SMP/e, IBM Mainframe experience and applying maintenance, IPL’ing, LPAR’s and HMC’s.
3. Familiarity with taking dumps, traces and gathering appropriate documentation for analysis.
4. Hands on with RACF and network security protocols (IPSec, AT‑TLS, SSH).
5. Knowledge of Coupling facility support, High Availability and Automation.
6. Experience with parallel sysplex (GDPS) and IBM utilities.

General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation:

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• disability
• accidental death and dismemberment
• tax‑preferred savings accounts
• a 401k plan
• 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full‑time or part‑time status) during their first year of employment
• 10 sick days (also prorated)
• paid holidays
• defined benefit pension plan
• restricted stock units
• a deferred compensation plan

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law.

Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.

EEO is the Law E‑Verify IER Right to Work.

About Truist

Truist is a purpose‑driven financial services company, formed by the historic merger of equals of BB&T and SunTrust. We serve clients in a number of high‑growth markets in the country, offering a wide range of financial services. At Truist, our purpose is to inspire and build better lives and communities. That happens through real care to make things better. To meet client needs, to empower teammates, and to lift up communities. Learn more about Truist on truist.com.