Mainframe DevOps Engineer -Remote Work at RapidIT

Job Title: Mainframe DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote Work

Duration: Multiyear Contract

Description:

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.
• Experience with version control, change management and deployment tools such as ChangeMan ZMF, ChangeMan ZMF Client Pack, Endevor, ISPW
• 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.