Associate Director - Principal Platform Engineer (z/OS, REXX)

Associate Director - Principal Platform Engineer (z/OS, REXX)

Tampa, FL 33603/  Dallas, TX 75203/ McLean, VA 22101/ Jersey City, NJ 07303/ Boston, MA 02111

Flexible/Hybrid Work Arrangements (2 Days work from OFFICE, i.e., every Tuesday and Wednesday candidate has to come to office)

Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder.

• The Principal Platform Engineer is responsible for design analysis, documentation, testing, implementation and support for the z/OS Operating System, Third Party Products, UNIX System Services environment, and System Automation.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform design analysis, documentation, testing, implementation, and support for the infrastructure mainframe systems environment
• Install and manage mainframe software deployments in a highly granular SYSPLEX environment
• Maintain high quality and consistency of systems software and automation processes
• Enhance reporting and automation using supported mainframe tools such as JCL, REXX, SAS, SQL, PYTHON and Java/JavaScript
• Complete assignments by due dates, without detailed supervision
• Participate in team on-call coverage rotation, which includes tactical systems administration and provide weekend support
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk, advances appropriately
• Participate in disaster recovery tests (on weekends)
• Actively engage in strategic goals for mainframe engineering, the department and organization
• Provide input and follow-through for continuous improvement to mainframe systems engineering processes and procedures
• Maintain and enhance hardware configuration via HCD and perform basic HMC functions
• Perform level 1 network fix for mainframe applications

Pay and Benefits:

Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive

Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location

Retirement benefits467

Paid Time Off and other leave of absence

Flexible/Hybrid Work Arrangements (2 Days work from OFFICE, i.e., every Tuesday and Wednesday candidate has to come to office)

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: (Submission Summary):

1. Minimum of 8 years of related experience

2. Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

3. A minimum of 5 years System Programmers experience in an IBM z/OS environment.

4. Knowledge in REXX and Automation programming experience.

5. Ability to identify and manage IT risk

6. COBOL and C/C++ knowledge a plus

7. Solid background in mainframe systems automation planning and design

8. Working knowledge of performance monitoring tools, especially Mainview

9. Working knowledge of z/OS UNIX System Services in z/OS environments

HTML, Java, Java Script, C, C++, and UNIX shell programming a plus

10. Familiarity operating systems (i.e., Windows, UNIX, LINUX) a plus

11. Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder.