Mainframe Developer Night Shift W2 Only

Terms of Employment
? Contract-to-Hire, 12 months
? This position is remote. Candidates must reside in Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Florida, or Texas.

Overview

Our client is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role involves conducting advanced analysis, design, development, testing, and debugging of software solutions, spanning operating system architecture integration, software design, and the selection of systems, programming languages, and hardware.

The Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, test, and document critical and complex applications for computer systems, collaborating with stakeholders to define system scope, objectives, and baselines. Responsibilities include establishing project standards and processes, breaking down intricate software requirements, and delivering highly complex systems that meet business needs.

Responsibilities
? Day to Day Functions
? Daily monitoring of IT infrastructure and applications, as well as managing and maintaining the supporting technologies to ensure peak efficiency and reliability.
? Serve as backup for Shift Lead for a DCO monitoring shift and be responsible for completing the Shift Summary sheet for review and approval by oncoming shift DCO Lead.
? Provide real-time monitoring for both Mainframe and Distributed systems in order to proactively detect and prevent service disruption.
? Responsible for diagnosing and troubleshooting complex problems through resolution.
? Ensure proper procedures are followed to introduce changes and fixes into the operating environment and production libraries in order to ensure the lowest possible error rate.
? Provide timely notification of Level 2 system and application support teams as necessary. Independently works with system monitoring and diagnostic tools to ensure optimal performance of operating systems.
? Initiate and coordinate HealthCheck calls for problem identification and resolution.
? Scheduling Tasks
? Create or alter new and existing jobs and job schedules on the mainframe, Windows, and UNIX environments using the scheduling package(s).
? Perform job restarts with needed overrides and correct JCL syntax.
? Monitor the Scheduler queues to ensure job completion and/or error corrections have been performed.
? Update Scheduler Base Calendars to reflect current years processing and Holiday schedule.
? Build AGENT capabilities to communicate scheduling requirements across platforms.
? Contributes to the implementation of new technology and tools to increase productivity and performance with job scheduling.
? Support upgrades and new releases to applications, platforms, and the scheduling product(s).
? Procedural
? Develops, updates, and maintains operations systems manuals, documentations, policies, inventories, written procedures relative to installing, configuration, maintaining, and using Operating Systems, subsystems software, scheduling, and information ensuring compliance with Corporate security and audit regulations.
? Contributes to the establishment of SLAs and Metrics, monitoring performance against requirements to ensure performance targets are met.
? Provide timely information for audit requests for Data Center Operations.
? Follow IT Operations guidelines for audit reply review and approval.
? Technology Consulting
? Provide technical assistance to all customers; IT Operations, Service Desk, and Application Programming areas to leverage technology and resolve issues/problems.
? Provides 365x24x7 on call support for assigned products and services.
? Uses available resources to research, resolve and recommend solutions for the complex and critical systems.
? Collects and trends data and metrics options for DCO reporting.
? Assists with daily system administration tasks for EDCS products and services to ensure that they are functioning properly.
? Leads maintenance and upgrade efforts for EDCS products and services.
? Works with vendor technical support centers when troubleshooting product based issues.
? Work along with other IT engineers on day-to-day tasks and projects.
? Participates in Data Center Operations efforts for disaster recovery/business resumption initiatives and during Disaster Recovery Exercises.

Required Skills & Experience
? Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or 4 additional years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.
? 5 years of experience in software development, basic coding, software architecture/design, user requirements definition, and software specification.
? Ability to communicate technical requirements at all expertise levels.
? Knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC).
? Proficiency in integrating complex or existing systems.
? Familiarity with programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, C, Python).
? Strong written and verbal communication skills.
? Knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure) and database technologies (e.g., SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL).
? Understanding of software engineering best practices, agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and code quality/promotion practices.
? Experience with TDD and BDD for unit tests and automated acceptance tests.
? Proficiency with CI/CD tools and deployment processes.
? Strong CA7 skills and ability to manage jobs and schedules.
? Knowledge of UNIX, Windows commands, DB2 commands, stored procedures, and subsystems.
? Familiarity with DFSMS, DFHSM, IDCAMS, VSAM, TSM, and SAN/distributed storage management concepts.
? Experience diagnosing and resolving complex problems using system dumps, trace analysis, and vendor support.
? Ability to monitor HSM, manage ICF catalogs, and assist with network monitoring.
? Knowledge of TCP/IP, VTAM, network topology, and base network monitoring.
? Adaptability to change and ability to mentor junior staff.

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