Mainframe Positions

Dallas, TX Onsite

Position

Role

Openings

Location

Skills / Requirements

Position 1

z/OS Systems Programmer / System Admin Lead

Mainframe Production Services Lead, Team Management

Position 2

DB2 DBA

DB2, SFTP, JRB

Position 3

Storage Administrator

System Automation, Disaster Recovery, IWS, Storage Administration

Position 4

Mainframe Infrastructure Engineer (z/OS + Storage + Hardware + DR + Performance)

Mainframe Production Services Lead, Team Management

Position 5

Mainframe DevOps / Modernization Engineer

Mainframe Production Services Lead, Team Management

Resource 1 Onsite

Primary Platforms: Mainframe Production Services (1st Line Management)

Support Model: First Shift / 7x24x365

Supervise the IT-I Platform Services Mainframe Production Services Team
Provide 7x24x365 incident response, addressing outages, errors, and performance issues.
Work closely with developers on planning, testing, and troubleshooting across development, test, QA, and production.
Conduct problem determination using logs, diagnostics, and system data to resolve issues effectively.
Implement approved system changes in compliance with enterprise change management processes.
Support and perform annual software upgrades for assigned systems across all environments.
Ensure continuous availability and reliability, prioritizing rapid recovery and service continuity.

Resource 2 Onsite

Primary Platforms: DB2, SFTP, JRB

Support Model: First Shift / 7x24x365

Monitor platform health for DB2 subsystems, SFTP services, and JRB processing across development, test, QA, and production environments.
Respond to incidents and alerts impacting DB2, file transfers, or job processing, providing timely problem determination and resolution.
Work with developers on planning, testing, and troubleshooting issues related to DB2 access, SFTP transfers, and JRB job execution.
Analyze failures and errors by reviewing logs, job output, and system messages to identify root cause and corrective actions.
Execute approved changes for TTERM, DB2, SFTP, and JRB in accordance with change management standards.
Perform and support annual software upgrades for DB2, SFTP, and JRB across all environments.
Maintain availability and data integrity, ensuring services remain stable and recoveries are completed correctly.

Resource 3 Onsite

Primary Platforms: System Automation, Disaster Recovery, IWS, Storage Administration

Support Model: First Shift / 7x24x365

Monitor platform health for System Automation subsystems and Storage Administration across development, test, QA, and production environments.
Respond to incidents and alerts impacting System Automation, Storage Administration and IWS, providing timely problem determination and resolution.
Work with staff on planning, testing, and troubleshooting issues related to System Automation, Storage Administration, IWS, and Disaster Recovery.
Analyze failures and errors by reviewing logs, job output, and system messages to identify root cause and corrective actions.
Execute approved changes for System Automation and IWS in accordance with change management standards.
Maintain availability and data integrity, ensuring services remain stable and recoveries are completed correctly.
Support annual software upgrades for Z/OS across all environments.

Resource 4 Onsite

Primary Platforms: Operating System and Hardware Services

Support Model: First Shift / 7x24x365

Provide daily operational monitoring to verify system availability, performance, and workload completion.
Respond to incidents and alerts impacting production services, ensuring rapid recovery and service continuity.
Work closely with application and development teams to support planning, testing, and production readiness.
Perform problem determination by reviewing system logs, job output, and diagnostic information.
Implement changes following established change and release management standards.
Support ongoing operational stability and 7x24x365 support coverage.
Mainframe z/OS System Software administration which involves Installation and Customization including PARMLIB updates.
Install all ISV (Independent Software Vendor) products like Systemware JHS, LRS VPS and Chicago Soft QuickRef and provide ongoing support.
DASD and Tape Storage support, EMC DLM Virtual Tape support, Storage Administration using IBM RMM and SMS administration.
Provide next level support for our Scheduler Team and troubleshoot Batch job failures and take ZOS on call support.

Resource 5 Onsite

Primary Platforms: Operating System and Hardware Services

Support Model: First Shift / 7x24x365 (Contractor)

Perform daily monitoring of assigned systems to validate availability, performance, and workload execution.
Provide incident response and recovery support for production services on a 7x24x365 basis.
Collaborate with developers and application teams during testing, deployment, and troubleshooting efforts.
Analyze system issues using logs, messages, and job output to determine root cause.
Implement approved system and operational changes following change management guidelines.
Ensure systems remain stable, recoverable, and aligned with service expectations.
Planning and installation of IBM Mainframes, DISK and Tape Hardware which includes Hardware Configuration and IOGENs.
Plan and install z/OS Operating System, apply maintenance, and IBM products (COBOL, Netview, System Automation, CICS, Db2, MQ, RACF, OMEGAMON) etc).
Storage Administration using SMS, RMM, HSM.
Setup replication of Storage (Disk and Tape) and perform Disaster Recovery.
Performance Management and tuning using SMF, RMF, WLM etc.

Mainframe Positions........Dallas, TX - Onsite

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