Mainframe Automation Engineer (OPAMVS, REXX) - Finance - Remote
Day rate: £400 - £500 (inside IR35)
Duration: 6 - 12 months
Start: Now
My client is looking for a Mainframe engineer to join the Automation team remotely on a long contract.
Role:
- Provide expert Mainframe Automation and output management support
- Ability to develop and support Splunk dashboards and alerts
- Author Test Cases to validate native/new functionality.
- Represent the team at technical/business meetings/events in a professional and assertive manner.
- Communicate and collaborate with Business & Operational Teams
- Mainframe Automation Problem escalations (internal and vendor support)
- Follow ITIL Business processes, Change, Incident, Problem and Root Cause Analysis processes
- Manage Mainframe Automation tools in line with security, compliance, and policies, using standard tools, e.g. CyberArk, ServiceNow
- Potential on-call support (24x7x365) for OPSMVS, CAView and iDash issues.
Required Skills
Knowledge and experience with Mainframe systems
OPSMVS
CA-View & CA-Deliver
REXX
Mainframe Operations in general - JCL, ISPF, JES2, z/OS
Desirable skills
I-Dash for CA7 admin
BMC AMI Ops Automation
BMC Control-M Output Management
Splunk dashboards and alerts
SAS
Windows server knowledge
REST API knowledge
Experience of MS Office
Knowledge of basic CA7 operations
Knowledge of basic Control-M Schedule Management
Web page coding skills
File transfer basic knowledge
Knowledge of ServiceNow
ITIL Processes
Agile Concepts
Education / Experience
Graduate or Equivalent education in a computing relevant subject
At least 5 years working within a complex Mainframe environment
Mainframe System Automation software administration on Mainframe systems