Mainframe Platform Engineer/Mainframe Systems Administrator

Overview

Join our dynamic team as a Mainframe Platform Engineer/Mainframe Systems Administrator and become a vital driver of enterprise-level mainframe solutions! In this energetic role, you will be responsible for managing and optimizing mainframe systems, ensuring seamless operation, security, and integration within complex IT infrastructure. Your expertise will empower our organization to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure mainframe services that support critical business functions. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, influence system architecture, and contribute to innovative enterprise solutions.

Mainframe Platform Engineer – DB2 / SFTP / JRB

Primary Platforms: DB2, SFTP, JRB

• 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.

Mainframe Systems Administrator

Primary Platforms: Operating System and Hardware Services

• 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.

Pay: $50.00 - $60.00 per hour

Work Location: In person