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# Mainframe Z/OS Infrastructure Engineer

- **Company:** Dechen Consulting Group
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Access, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Computer Networks, Data Warehousing, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Data Store, Hadoop Distributed File System, Job Control Language (JCL), Identity and Access Management, Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF), Job Entry Subsystem 2/3, Microsoft Project, Microsoft PowerPoint, SAS (Software), Supercomputing, System Programming, Virtual Machines, Z/OS, Cloud Platform System, Containerization, Omegamon
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/6744020f-839a-4b8d-aed8-8bfe12261da7

## About the Role

Senior Engineer Exp: 10+ years in IT; 8+ years in development
Eight or more years of System Programming experience, including dump analysis, SMP/E, SMF, USS, Omegamon, MVS and JES exits, problem analysis and resolution. Working knowledge of z/Operating System internals in JES2 or JES3 environments. Experience in planning, customizing, testing and on-going support of Independent Software Vendor (ISV) products (i.e. CA Technologies, BMC, SAS, IBM, etc.) Knowledge and experience in corporate and group security and control policies, procedures, and standards. Experience supporting Disaster Recovery for z/OS environment. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, highly motivated, and possess excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Proficient with Microsoft Word and Excel. Experience with Access, PowerPoint and Microsoft Project for project administration are highly desirable Working knowledge of ISPF, TSO, JCL and IBM utilities is essential. Candidates must be willing and able to work overtime which includes all shifts, weekends, and
holidays.

## Description

1. Involved in the design, operation, and maintenance of enterprise servers, including specialty mainframe systems like IBM/LPARS, high performance super computing systems, and general-purpose hybrid and cloud systems, for optimal end-user business operations.
 2. Research, design, implement and maintain complex infrastructure solutions for internal customer needs such as specialty software, data warehouses, identity access management, event frameworks, containerization and on demand scaling, etc.
 3. Design and configure secure virtualized environments aligned with enterprise architecture blueprints consisting of virtual machines, virtual networks, high speed and distributed storage systems (SAN, HDFS, SSD, etc.)
 4. Utilize existing tools or assist in engineering custom monitoring solutions to ensure systems are configured correctly, run efficiently and remain secure against potential threats.
 5. Monitor and review resources like CPU, memory, storage, and network traffic to ensure effective utilization aligned with expected parameters and to safeguard against runaway costs.
 6. Resolve bottlenecks and plan for future capacity needs based on resource usage trends. Advise enterprise architecture teams on usage trends to incorporate into future blueprints.


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