Mainframe Production Support Engineer

Educational Requirements

• MCA, MSc, MTech, BCA, BSc, BTech, Bachelor of Engineering

Service Line

Application Development and Maintenance

Responsibilities

• Provide L2/L3 mainframe production support for critical business applications, ensuring high availability, stability, and performance.
• Monitor batch jobs and online transactions, proactively identify failures or performance bottlenecks, and drive timely resolution to minimize business impact.
• Perform incident management following ITIL practices: log, triage, analyze, resolve, and document incidents within agreed SLAs and OLAs.
• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for recurring or high-impact issues, propose corrective and preventive actions, and track them to closure.
• Handle service requests and problem tickets related to mainframe applications, including configuration updates, data fixes, and minor enhancements.
• Collaborate with development teams to analyze COBOL programs and related components to support defect fixes, performance tuning, and production deployments.
• Support change and release management activities: participate in impact analysis, implementation planning, validations, and postdeployment support.
• Maintain detailed documentation including support runbooks, standard operating procedures, known error databases, and configuration details.
• Participate in on-call/shift rotations to provide 24x7 support coverage as required, including weekend or off-hours support for critical releases and maintenance windows.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, providing clear updates on incident status, risks, and resolution plans, and ensuring user expectations are managed.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying automation opportunities, optimizing support processes, and sharing knowledge with the team.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (BTECH, BE, MCA, MTECH).
• 8 - 11+ years of hands-on experience in mainframe production support or mainframe application support in an enterprise environment.

Technical and Professional Requirements

• Primary skills: Mainframe All->Architecture, Mainframes, Mainframes->CICS administration(CICS System programming), Mainframes->COBOL Support, Mainframes->DB2, Mainframes->JCL Support

Preferred Skills

• Mainframes
• Mainframes->COBOL Support
• Mainframes->JCL Support
• Mainframes->CICS administration(CICS System programming)
• Mainframes->DB2