Mainframe Consultant (W2 Requirement)

Role: Mainframe Consultant (W2 Requirement)

Location: Nashville, TN / Lake Mary, FL / Pittsburgh, PA / Sommerset, NJ (Onsite)

Duration: Long Term

Note: Need 10 Years of experienced candidates.

Job Description:

Own the mainframe automation strategy and roadmap to improve reliability, detection, and recovery.

Scale automated solutions across infrastructure domains (batch, storage, networking, middleware) using APIs, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.

Architect and govern multi-site failover automation; maintain and test DR playbooks and runbooks.

Define and operationalize SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and alerting standards; reduce MTTA/MTTR through event correlation and automated remediation.

Instill disciplined engineering: peer reviews, version control, change management gates, and automation standards aligned to risk/compliance.

Build and lead a high-performing team; develop talent in REXX, z/OS automation, DevOps, and integration.

Partner across platforms, applications, cyber, risk, and compliance to prioritize automation investments that reduce toil and operational risk.

Own KPIs and continuous improvement cycles; communicate performance, risks, and outcomes to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Technical leadership and hands-on guidance in:

Mainframe automation frameworks and system state management

Expert-level REXX scripting; deep z/OS operating environment expertise

Designing/supporting automated failover in multi-site environments

RESTful APIs and systems integration for orchestration

DevOps tooling (e.g., Jenkins including Zowe plug-in, Ansible) and CI/CD for mainframe workloads

ServiceNow ITSM workflows and automation

AIOps/event-management platforms (e.g., Moogsoft or equivalent)

SQL, JCL, ISPF/TSO and related toolchains

Governance, risk, and controls:

Strong change control discipline (Git, peer reviews, deployment safeguards)

High-quality documentation: runbooks, process/architecture standards

Alignment with audit and compliance requirements

Stakeholder and vendor management:

Partner with infrastructure leaders and vendors; drive outcomes via SLAs and measurable KPIs

Translate functional requirements into automation workflows; steward solution documentation and training

Operations ownership:

Troubleshoot and drive root-cause fixes; prepare detailed problem reports

Resilience/DR: hands-on experience with GDPS and Safeguarded Copy

Collaborate on performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost efficiency

Leadership Expectations:

Lead engineers/SREs with clear objectives, coaching, and succession planning; foster documentation and knowledge sharing.

Shape automation standards across technology services group ; align priorities to business outcomes and risk posture.

Present strategy, results, and risks to senior technology leadership; influence cross-platform adoption.

Practice financial stewardship for tooling, licensing, and infrastructure; identify savings via automation and improved change success rates.