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Location: Nashville, TN/ Lake Mary, FL/ Pittsburgh, PA/ Somerset, NJ
We are seeking an experienced Mainframe Automation Lead to drive enterprise-wide automation, resiliency, and operational excellence initiatives across large-scale mainframe environments. This role requires deep expertise in z/OS, REXX, Disaster Recovery, Automation Frameworks, DevOps, and ServiceNow integrations, along with strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.
Key Responsibilities
Location: Nashville, TN/ Lake Mary, FL/ Pittsburgh, PA/ Somerset, NJ
We are seeking an experienced Mainframe Automation Lead to drive enterprise-wide automation, resiliency, and operational excellence initiatives across large-scale mainframe environments. This role requires deep expertise in z/OS, REXX, Disaster Recovery, Automation Frameworks, DevOps, and ServiceNow integrations, along with strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute the enterprise mainframe automation strategy.
- Design and implement automated failover and disaster recovery solutions.
- Develop automation frameworks to improve reliability and reduce operational effort.
- Establish SLOs, SLIs, alerting standards, and automated remediation processes.
- Lead troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and operational improvements.
- Partner with infrastructure, applications, cyber, risk, and compliance teams.
- Drive automation adoption, documentation, and engineering best practices.
- Mentor and lead technical teams while ensuring knowledge sharing.
- Expert-level REXX scripting and z/OS administration
- Mainframe automation frameworks and system state management
- Multi-site failover and disaster recovery automation (GDPS, Safeguarded Copy)
- REST APIs and enterprise systems integration
- DevOps tools such as Jenkins (Zowe Plugin), Ansible, CI/CD
- ServiceNow ITSM workflow automation
- AIOps/Event Management platforms (Moogsoft or equivalent)
- Strong knowledge of SQL, JCL, ISPF/TSO
- Git, peer reviews, change management, and automation governance
- Extensive experience leading mainframe automation initiatives in large enterprise environments.
- Proven expertise in resilience and DR automation.
- Strong experience with DevOps and infrastructure automation.
- Experience managing KPIs, operational metrics, and executive reporting.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.