STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS HAS AN OPENING! Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for a Mainframe Engineer for a contract opening with one of our largest clients! This is a Contract Opportunity with our company that MUST be worked on a W2 ONLY, NO visa sponsorship or C2C eligibility for this position. The details are below. Job Title: Mainframe Programmer (Parallel Sysplex) Contract: 6 Months Location: Riverwoods, IL Job/Role Description: Monitors the mainframe system hardware/software for performance degradation, connectivity issues, system events and alerts.
Updates and manages tickets through resolution with vendors and internal support groups. Tests, analyzes, performs corrective actions, and restore availability and services in a timely and accurate manner to eliminate/reduce application impact. Provides timely notifications to management/outage team and escalate tickets to appropriate internal and external management as needed.
Participates in pager rotation to provide 24x7 support for Mainframe Systems (Prod, Test, Development). Plans and performs scheduled changes (patching, maintenance, deployment, decommission, configuration, performance tuning) for all hardware and software used to support the mainframe infrastructure. Provides consultative services to infrastructure and application teams regarding project work, POCs and/or troubleshooting exercises.
Contributes to product delivery, influenced by strategic direction across Business Technology and enterprise including investment decisions (ie, build vs buy) across multiple products. Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work. Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms.
Bridges desired Business features to BT capabilities and executes groundwork in requirement translations and design. Initiates detailed level solution design approaches across multiple domains, and guides team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability. Participates in (internal/external) speaking and advocacy events.
Coaches core technology communities and is actively engaged in understanding and researching new technologies. Researches and adopts new technology solutions and ways to build technical capabilities. Continues professional education and creates opportunities for broader engineering teams to learn industry best practices.
Required Skills/Experience: Bachelors - Computer Science or related 6+ Years - (Software) Engineering, DevOps or related 8 + years of experience in Mainframe Engineering, Unix/Linux Administration, Database Systems or related 8+ years CICS Systems with knowledge of CICS Plex environments 8+ years of Mainframe knowledge Knowledge of Mainframe MQ Knowledge of Mainframe DB2 Knowledge of Mainframe Moderization Knowledge of Parallel Sysplex Knowledge of CTG and zOS Connect Knowledge of VSAM Knowledge of JCL, TSO REXX, ISPF, and other core mainframe skills Knowledge of Mainframe Communication Server Knowledge of zOS Connect (zCEE) and an understanding of DB2 Rest Services.