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# IT - Senior Technology Lead | DevOps | Continuous integration - Mainframe

- **Company:** Cloudspace LLC
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $183,600.0 - $204,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Access, Batch Processing, Customer Information Control System (CICS), COBOL (Programming Language), Databases, Continuous Integration, IBM DB2, DevOps, Job Control Language (JCL), Mainframes, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Virtual Storage Access Methods, Transaction Processing (Computing), Data Storage Technologies
- **Published:** July 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us040e1de945358d74a43558d8e9d5d211

## About the Role

Must Have Skills (Top 3 technical skills only) *

 1. JCL
 2. COBOL
 3. DB2
Nice to have skills (Top 2 only)

 1. VSAM
 2. ITSM

## Description

Develop and maintain mainframe applications using COBOL to support business processes. Design, write, and optimize JCL jobs for batch processing and scheduling. Work with DB2 databases for data storage, retrieval, query optimization, and performance tuning. Develop and support CICS online programs for realtime transaction processing. Handle VSAM files for data storage, access, and file management operations. Analyze business requirements and provide techno functional solutions in mainframe environment
Minimum years of experience*: 8-10 years
Certifications Needed: No
Top 3 responsibilities you would expect the Subcon to shoulder and execute*:

 1. Develop and maintain mainframe applications using COBOL to support business processes.
 2. Design, write, and optimize JCL jobs for batch processing and scheduling.
 3. Work with DB2 databases for data storage, retrieval, query optimization, and performance tuning.
Interview Process (Is face to face required?)
No, Project Code :GSL Development Capacity


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