Senior Mainframe Automation Architect

Kyndryl; Gauteng; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,350,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyndryl seeks an Automation Specialist to design, implement, and support enterprise automation in a large-scale mainframe environment. The role targets improving operational efficiency, reducing manual intervention, and ensuring stable batch processing across complex systems.

You will collaborate with operations and infrastructure teams, develop automation scripts, and drive standardization while contributing to disaster recovery and continuous improvement initiatives.

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.

Education

Relevant IT qualification

Tools

IBM System Automation (SA z/OS)

IBM NetView

IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS)

HPE/CA AutoSys

CA OPS/MVS

CA 7

CA Workload Automation

JCL

TSO/ISPF

REXX

JES2/JES3

Mainframe batch scheduling

z/OS

Job description

Kyndryl seeks an Automation Specialist to design, implement, and support enterprise automation in a large-scale mainframe environment. The role targets improving operational efficiency, reducing manual intervention, and ensuring stable batch processing across complex systems.

You will collaborate with operations and infrastructure teams, develop automation scripts, and drive standardization while contributing to disaster recovery and continuous improvement initiatives.