Sr. System Engineer & Vendor Management (Mainframe Platform & Infra)

Description: The Mainframe Engineering team is accountable for providing a stable, secure, resilient and risk managed platform for our business teams to develop, deploy and integrate applications on Mainframe. We leverage a managed service provider to enable “Mainframe Platform as a Service” yet provides governance and oversight on the contractual engagements with the supplier and functions as an integrator between the supplier and internal teams including the business partners. We are simultaneously executing a 3-year roadmap to migrate off Mainframe applications to cloud, to sunset Mainframe in a safe and data retention compliant manner.

We are looking for a mainframe engineering infrastructure senior to add to our existing mainframe infrastructure team. The team is accountable for managing work efforts for the z/os infrastructure, hardware, software, monitoring and coordinating across business, application teams, and the managed services vendor.

The Mainframe engineer’s responsibilities include:

· Technical Lead for Mainframe Platform (z/OS, Dell Storage, IMS, DB2, RACF, CA JobTrac) to govern operations, changes and sustainability upgrade projects.

· Interface between internal teams and Managed Service Supplier for issue resolution & change coordination.

· Accountable for governance and oversight on contractual SLAs and key metrics.

· Perform technical review, validation, coordination and compliance assurance for Vendor Managed and business requested Mainframe infrastructure changes (maintenance and sustainability upgrades)

· Execute risk management controls, Baseline Security Compliance activities and audit support, involving technical review and execution of z/OS, IMS, DB2 and zSecure subsystems, involving RACF security.

· Work as client side - technical SME for Mainframe infrastructure subsystems, to hold Managed Service Provider accountable to deliver on the changes and contracted services

· Requires detailed knowledge of z/OS, IMS and DB2 subsystems and RACF security services

· Flexibility for unscheduled engagement to lead & drive major incident resolutions & planned after-hour releases.

· Perform root cause analysis with corrective and preventive measures.

· Communicates and influences effectively.

Your Impact:

· Identifies technical risks to planned system upgrades and works toward implementing mitigations to those risks.

· Reviews completion and implementation of system upgrades and/or enhancements and makes recommendations to management on opportunities for improvement.

· Identifies, analyzes, and resolves system problems.

Qualifications:

· 5 years of hands-on experience in mainframe infrastructure engineering

· Knowledge of z/OS architectures and z/OS internals

· Knowledge of the zSecure tool and its is own language, Carla, for customization a plus

· Knowledge of mainframe security and RACF

· Knowledge of mainframe security related to supporting audits & findings – in reference to BSCs, key managements a plus

· Knowledge of IBM Mainframe Systems: JCL, CICS, SQL, z/OS, DB2, IMS, VSAM, XML, TSO/ISPF, zconnect

· Proactive and ability to think creatively and execute in a manner that respects and meets appropriate internal controls

· Very strong attention to detail, ability to execute process, and follow through on tasks, with significant organizational, project and program management skills

· Excellent communications skills, including comfort interacting with internal management and external stakeholders