Overview
In this role, you will provide technical leadership for the z/OS mainframe platform, driving reliability and modernization to support secure, resilient services. You will collaborate with cross-functional infrastructure teams to solve complex issues and align solutions with business needs. The position offers exposure to large-scale, globally deployed environments and opportunities to shape enterprise mainframe capabilities. A strong focus on problem resolution and technical guidance will help advance platform efficiency and stability.
Pay / Benefits
- private healthcare
- annual health screen
- pension
- life assurance
- group income protection
- flexible benefits
Responsibilities
- Provide technical engineering and operational support for the Mainframe Services z/OS platform, including OS support and data centre capabilities
- Design, develop, and implement systems engineering solutions with limited oversight
- Serve as a seasoned technical resource and give direction on projects without direct reports
- Perform problem determination and root-cause analysis for z/OS issues
- Install, configure, test, and support z/OS and related system software
- Provide system-level support ensuring stability, availability, and recoverability
- Evaluate existing systems and recommend practical solutions
- Identify opportunities to optimize mainframe resources and performance
- Research and plan hardware and software changes with OS interfaces and dependencies
- Collaborate with networking, storage, security, and other teams for reliable integration
- Create and maintain system configuration, operational and troubleshooting documentation
- Assess emerging technologies and align with business and platform requirements
Key requirements
- Demonstrated knowledge of IBM z/OS OS, architecture, processing logic, and RACF security
- Deep experience supporting IBM z/OS in large-scale environments
- Ability to develop tools, standards, and methodologies for enterprise z/OS management
- Advanced problem-determination and root-cause analysis skills
- Extensive knowledge of IBM zEnterprise hardware and data centre facilities
- Experience installing and servicing z/OS using z/OSMF and SMP/E
- Experience with IBM IBMLINK and electronic support resources
- Subject-matter expertise in mainframe systems programming and technical leadership
- Experience supporting z/OS 3.1 environments with JES2
- Proficiency with IPCS, RMF, MICS, SMF, Debug Tool, SLIP, Splunk
- Programming experience with REXX and IBM High Level Assembler
- RACF administration and security support experience
- Experience defining mainframe hardware configurations using HCD
- Technical leadership
- Advanced problem solving
- Cross-functional collaboration
- IBM z/OS
- RACF
- z/OSMF
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