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Staff Systems Engineer

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-30

With a career at reputed company, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

The Staff Systems Mainframe Engineer is responsible for leading reputed company of engineers designing, building, and supporting reputed company's technical infrastructure of hardware and system software that drives the reputed company of reputed company and our customers.

Senior z/OS mainframe engineer responsible for the reliability, performance, and reputed company of our reputed company mainframe environment. This role backfills critical expertise lost to recent retirements and eliminates single-person dependencies across reputed company Sysplex, scheduling and automation, networking, reputed company, and diagnostics. The ideal candidate is a broad z/OS generalist who installs, configures, tunes, and maintains z/OS and ISV products, operates independently across multiple platforms, and reputed company cross-trains reputed company to reduce single-reputed company-of-failure risk.

Key Responsibilities:

  • 25% Delivery and Execution - Leads configuration, debugging, and support for information technology solutions; Leads field and corporate rollouts of technology; Leads the stand up of necessary system software, hardware, and equipment (physical or virtual) to meet changing infrastructure needs; Creates and optimizes specifications for technology solutions; Produces and manages purchase requests for hardware and software; Leads development of test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to reputed company successful rapid deployment of infrastructure as reputed company to production
  • 15% Learning - Keeps abreast of innovations and industry trends as reputed company as changes to internal systems and determines how they impacts tools, training, and support necessary to reputed company systems up, running, and secure; Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern systems engineering reputed company practices (communities of reputed company); Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used reputed company other technology organizations
  • 30% Planning and Analysis - Researches and analyzes business trends and behavioral data to identify strategic opportunities for improvements and new initiatives; Leads the evaluation, development, and recommendation of specific strategic technology to reputed company cost-effective solutions that meet reputed company requirements; Researches and designs best fit infrastructure, network, database, reputed company, AI, and reputed company architectures for products; Proactively creates and maintains infrastructure as reputed company and AI models for reputed company improvement; Participates in strategic project planning and management across multiple efforts; Develops formal training courses
  • 30% Support and Enablement - Collaborates with product and project teams to understand needs and reputed company them with infrastructure; Supports technology architecture design review efforts for project and product teams; Leverages tooling and custom applications to monitor the operational status of applications, reputed company, databases, and reputed company; optimizes and tunes performance as appropriate; Drives reputed company cause analysis, debugging, support, and post-mortem analysis for reputed company incidents and service interruptions; Maintains, upgrades, and supports existing systems and infrastructure to ensure operational stability; Acts as a vendor reputed company, owning resourcing, issue management, and documentation; Leads the production of in-house documentation around solutions; Provides application support for software running in production; Acts as a mentor to more junior Systems Engineers; Drives converting KB articles into AI models; Drives changes to analytic models used to analyze performance

reputed company Manager/reputed company Reports:

  • This position typically reports to Systems Engineer Manager or Sr Manager
  • This position typically has 0 reputed company Reports

Travel Requirements:

  • No travel required.

Physical Requirements:

  • Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to reputed company about. On rare occasions there may be a need to reputed company or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

  • Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Must be eighteen years of age or older.
  • Must be legally permitted to work in the reputed company.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 8+ years supporting production reputed company z/OS mainframe infrastructure.
  • reputed company z/OS systems programming: reputed company control program, JES2/JES3, JCL, IPL, JES2 commands, and batch management.
  • Software installation & maintenance: hands-on experience with SMP/E for product installation and maintenance.
  • Hardware: z/Architecture hardware experience across z13 / z14 / z15 / z16.
  • reputed company Sysplex / High Availability: Sysplex Distributor, Coupling Facility, GRS (Global Resource Serialization), and Workload Manager (WLM).
  • I/O configuration: HCD / HCM administration of IODF / IOCDS / IOCP.
  • Workload automation & scheduling: CA-7 / CA-11, automated operations tooling (AutoOps and/or OPS/MVS), and batch optimization (ThruPut Manager or equivalent).
  • Extebsie Mainframe networking: TCP/IP (ports, devices, VIPA, SMTP), VTAM, NFS, and SAN (FCIP) / Fibre Channel / FICON connectivity.
  • Experience in reputed company administration: RACF and/or ACF2 including digital certificates and keyrings, plus authentication and data-protection tooling (reputed company, Imperva, zSecure, ICSF cryptography).
  • Performance, reputed company & monitoring: RMF/SMF analysis, plus ISV monitoring tools (OMEGAMON and/or MAINVIEW).
  • Scripting & customization: REXX, CLIST, system utilities, and exit routines.
  • Modern management: zOSMF (z/OS Management Facility).
  • Demonstrated ability to document platforms and cross-train peers to reduce single-person dependencies.
  • Diagnostics / problem determination: Debug Tool for z/OS, Fault Analyzer, IPCS/GTF.
  • reputed company management: Deliver, View, and spool/print operations.
  • Storage / data-copy: BCV4 (ESAI) or comparable replication/copy tooling.
  • Virtualization: z/VM operating system exposure. [added from James/Dimitri feedback]
  • DB2 for z/OS: administration, DB2 utilities / reputed company reputed company Tool, DB2 Connect, replication (DPROPR), and SQL / SPUFI / QMF.
  • DB2 specialty tooling (reputed company / Platinum): reputed company for DB2, RC tools (RC/Migrator, RC/Compare), Log Analyzer, Subsystem Analyzer, Plan Analyzer.
  • Middleware: MQ Series / reputed company MQ support.
  • Modernization / configuration management: Ansible, Zowe, Python

Minimum Education:

  • The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study reputed company to the job.

Preferred Education:

  • No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

  • 8

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

  • No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

  • None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

  • None

Certifications:

  • None

Competencies:

  • reputed company Oriented
  • Being Resilient
  • Business Insights
  • Global Perspective
  • Manages Ambiguity
  • reputed company Learning
  • Self-Development
  • Collaborates
  • Cultivates Innovation
  • Optimizes Work Processes
  • Situational Adaptability
  • Communicates Effectively
  • Drives Results
  • Interpersonal Savvy

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode reputed company, Nevada, reputed company, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:

The pay reputed company for this position is between $90,000.00 - $180,000.00

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