Basic Purpose:
Responsible for the set-up, support, maintenance, and development of software lifecycle processes for mainframe platform. The goal is to modernize the mainframe processes to a modern CI/CD pipeline methodology. Candidate must have development aptitude to write build and deployment scripts and extensive latitude for independent judgment.
Specific Qualifications:
- Experience managing mainframe z/OS and USS systems, and a working understanding of overall mainframe architecture. Emphasis on identifying manual processes that can be automated.
- Experience with software lifecycle management in a mainframe environment, with goal to accomplish setting up DevOps and CI/CD methodologies on the mainframe system.
- Administrator experience with version control, change management and deployment tools such as ChangeMan ZMF and ChangeMan ZMF Client Pack
- Understanding of CICS, Db2, SQL, SDSF
- Knowledge of IBM High Level Assembler, IBM Enterprise COBOL, REXX, JCL, ISPF Dialog.
- Experience developing and building mainframe software.
- Proficiency in project analysis, functional areas, interoperability between areas, etc. to architect solutions to improve the processes.
- Ability to understand business problems and determine what aspects of them require optimization.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience in Agile Software Development Methodology.
- Experience with IBM Dependency Based Build (DBB), IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD), IBM IDz (or other Eclipse-based IDE), RocketGit.
- Coordination of technology decisions with architectural requirements and constraints, including architecting and designing CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of Quality Control and Test Automation.
Job Types: Part-time, Contract
Pay: $55.00 - $60.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Work Location: Remote
