Hybrid COBOL Engineer - Cape Town, Power9 UNIX & AIX Expert

Watershed Consulting; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Watershed Consulting seeks an experienced COBOL Developer to support and maintain critical legacy applications on Power9 UNIX and AIX 7.1 environments.

This is a 12-month contract in Cape Town with a hybrid model (4 days onsite, 1 day remote). You will perform development, enhancements, production support, and issue resolution using COBOL and related tech across cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of COBOL development and production support.
• Experience with VSAM file processing and Micro Focus Server Express (COBOL V5.1).
• Strong SQL development and optimization skills.
• Hands-on with Power9 UNIX and AIX 7.1 platforms.
• Experience in production support, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
• Legacy system modernization projects preferred; WMS (Triceps) knowledge a plus.
• Excellent communication; able to work onsite in Cape Town four days weekly.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance COBOL applications using COBOL V5.1 and VSAM.
• Design and support VSAM file processing and related COBOL modules.
• Analyze requirements and translate into technical solutions.
• Develop and optimize SQL queries and DB interactions.
• Support and administer applications on Power9 UNIX and AIX 7.1.
• Perform impact analysis, debugging, and root-cause analysis for incidents.
• Ensure stability, performance, and coding standard compliance.
• Participate in testing, deployment, and release management.
• Prepare clear technical documentation and collaborate with teams.

Skills

COBOL

VSAM

Micro Focus Server Express

SQL

Power9 UNIX

AIX 7.1

UNIX

Shell scripting

Debugging

Root cause analysis

Performance tuning

Application support

Release management

Production support

Legacy modernization

WMS (Triceps)

Technical documentation

Tools

VSAM

Micro Focus Server Express

Power9 UNIX

AIX 7.1

Job description

Watershed Consulting seeks an experienced COBOL Developer to support and maintain critical legacy applications on Power9 UNIX and AIX 7.1 environments.

This is a 12-month contract in Cape Town with a hybrid model (4 days onsite, 1 day remote). You will perform development, enhancements, production support, and issue resolution using COBOL and related tech across cross-functional teams.