What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legacy Support Engineer position at The Newberry Group?
Job Summary
Newberry Groups seeks an experienced Legacy Support Engineer with strong mainframe IDMS and Db2 z/OS DBA expertise to maintain, support, and enhance enterprise legacy database systems. This position focuses on the stability, performance, and modernization support of high‑visibility production environments within our Public Sector client.
Location
This is a full-time telecommuting role. The applicant must reside in the United States and be eligible to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
Responsibilities and Duties
Newberry Group is a performance-driven government services and solutions firm that provides security compliance, program governance, consulting, and customized solutions for public sector clients nationwide.
The strength of our company is a direct reflection of our highly skilled and talented workforce.
Benefits and Perks
In addition to competitive wages, Newberry Group offers an outstanding benefit package. This includes medical coverage with three plan options, dental and vision coverage, personal time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, telecommuting if available, retirement savings accounts (Pre-Tax and Roth), flexible and dependent care savings accounts, life insurance, long and short-term disability coverage, tuition and training reimbursement, employee assistance program, and more.
The Newberry Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – EEO/AA/Disability/Veterans.
Newberry Groups seeks an experienced Legacy Support Engineer with strong mainframe IDMS and Db2 z/OS DBA expertise to maintain, support, and enhance enterprise legacy database systems. This position focuses on the stability, performance, and modernization support of high‑visibility production environments within our Public Sector client.
Location
This is a full-time telecommuting role. The applicant must reside in the United States and be eligible to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Provide daily operational support for legacy mainframe applications and associated databases.
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across legacy platforms, ensuring minimal downtime.
- Analyze system performance, identify tuning opportunities, and execute optimization tasks.
- Support batch processing operations, job scheduling, and production workflows.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement enhancements, patches, and updates.
- Participate in incident management, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation planning.
- Assist with maintenance windows, release cycles, and environment migrations as needed.
- Document processes, technical changes, and system configurations to support knowledge continuity.
- 7 years supporting legacy/mainframe systems in production environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
- Ability to work remotely with distributed teams and manage tasks independently.
- Strong mainframe background, including support, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
- Mainframe Database Administrator experience with IDMS (DL/I‑style databases, schema/subschema), including maintenance, upgrades/patching, backup/recovery, performance tuning, and resolving incidents
- Working knowledge of Db2 z/OS, SQL, and database administration fundamentals within mainframe environments.
- Experience supporting traditional batch systems, JCL, and production operations.
- Occasional off‑hours support may be required for production emergencies or planned maintenance.
- Familiarity with Control‑M workload automation (job scheduling, calendar setup, monitoring, and troubleshooting).
- Experience with modernization initiatives or migrations of legacy platforms.
- Exposure to federal or enterprise environments with mature change-control processes.
Newberry Group is a performance-driven government services and solutions firm that provides security compliance, program governance, consulting, and customized solutions for public sector clients nationwide.
The strength of our company is a direct reflection of our highly skilled and talented workforce.
Benefits and Perks
In addition to competitive wages, Newberry Group offers an outstanding benefit package. This includes medical coverage with three plan options, dental and vision coverage, personal time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, telecommuting if available, retirement savings accounts (Pre-Tax and Roth), flexible and dependent care savings accounts, life insurance, long and short-term disability coverage, tuition and training reimbursement, employee assistance program, and more.
The Newberry Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – EEO/AA/Disability/Veterans.