Mainframe Engineer

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 (i.e., 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.

• 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