Senior Mainframe Automation Engineer

Kyndryl; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyndryl is seeking an Automation Specialist to design, implement, and support enterprise automation and workload scheduling within a large-scale mainframe environment. The role focuses on improving operational efficiency, reducing manual intervention, and ensuring stable batch processing.

You will collaborate with operations and infrastructure teams, administer automation platforms, develop scripts, and drive standardization plus disaster recovery testing.

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

Mainframe operations

Enterprise automation

Production support

Education

Relevant IT qualification

IBM/Broadcom certifications advantageous

Tools

SA z/OS

IBM NetView

Tivoli Workload Scheduler

AutoSys

CA OPS/MVS

CA 7

CA Workload Automation

Job description

Kyndryl is seeking an Automation Specialist to design, implement, and support enterprise automation and workload scheduling within a large-scale mainframe environment. The role focuses on improving operational efficiency, reducing manual intervention, and ensuring stable batch processing.

You will collaborate with operations and infrastructure teams, administer automation platforms, develop scripts, and drive standardization plus disaster recovery testing.