Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in mainframe systems engineering or operations
- Strong hands-on expertise with IBM z/OS
- Experience with core mainframe components such as:
- CICS, IMS, DB2
- JES2/JES3
- MQ, SMF, SDSF
- Solid understanding of mainframe performance tuning and capacity planning
- Experience leading production support and managing major incidents
- Strong scripting and automation skills (REXX, JCL, CLIST, Python, or equivalent)
- Familiarity with monitoring and scheduling tools (e.g., OMEGAMON, CA/BMC tools, Control-M)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience applying SRE principles in a mainframe or hybrid (mainframe + distributed) environment
- Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD, and automation frameworks
- Knowledge of Linux on Z and cloud integration patterns
- Experience with resilience engineering, chaos testing, or fault injection concepts
- Prior people-lead or technical-lead experience