Mainframe Automation Specialist

MECS Africa; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

MECS Africa in Gauteng seeks a Senior Mainframe Automation Engineer to lead and optimize automation platforms in production environments.

You will administer automation, develop scheduling scripts, design monitoring, and collaborate with Operations and Infra teams to ensure disaster recovery readiness.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years in mainframe operations or systems programming.
• 3–5+ years working with enterprise automation solutions.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support automation platforms.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and scheduling processes.
• Design automated monitoring and recovery procedures.
• Implement workload scheduling standards.
• Troubleshoot production scheduling and automation issues.
• Collaborate with operations and infrastructure teams.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity testing.
• Drive process optimization initiatives.
• Maintain automation documentation and standards.

Skills

Automation architecture

DevOps exposure

Monitoring & event mgmt

Service management tools

Education

Relevant IT qualification

Tools

IBM System Automation (SA z/OS)

IBM NetView

IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler

AutoSys

CA OPS/MVS

CA 7

CA Workload Automation

z/OS

JCL

TSO/ISPF

REXX

JES2/JES3

Mainframe batch scheduling

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support automation platforms.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and scheduling processes.
• Design automated monitoring and recovery procedures.
• Implement workload scheduling standards.
• Troubleshoot production scheduling and automation issues.
• Collaborate with operations and infrastructure teams.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity testing.
• Drive process optimization initiatives.
• Maintain automation documentation and standards.

Required Experience

• 5–10+ years in mainframe operations or systems programming.
• 3–5+ years working with enterprise automation solutions.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production environments.

Technical Skills

IBM Technologies

• IBM System Automation (SA z/OS).
• IBM NetView.
• IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) / IBM Workload Scheduler.

CA/Broadcom Technologies

• AutoSys.
• CA OPS/MVS.
• CA 7.
• CA Workload Automation products.

General

• z/OS.
• JCL.
• TSO/ISPF.
• REXX.
• JES2/JES3.
• Mainframe batch scheduling.

Preferred Skills

• Automation framework design.
• Service management tools.
• DevOps and orchestration exposure.
• Monitoring and event management solutions.

Qualifications

• Relevant IT qualification.
• IBM or Broadcom product certifications advantageous.