Mainframe - SRE (Cobol)

Mainframe - SRE (Cobol)

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About the Role:

In this role, you will play a key role in modernizing critical applications with a focus on improving observability, automation, and resiliency. You’ll work across both mainframe technologies (COBOL, RPG) and modern server-based environments (Java, Angular, .NET), giving you a unique opportunity to operate at the intersection of legacy systems and contemporary microservices. This is a great opportunity to drive engineering improvements that directly enhance production support operations.

What you will be doing :

Automation: Identify automation opportunities and implement tools and processes that streamline routine tasks, enable scalable infrastructure, and support seamless deployments.

Reliability: Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of applications and services. Develop and track new service level indicators to support SLO and SLA compliance.

Monitoring: Design and maintain monitoring and alerting solutions that improve visibility into infrastructure, application performance, and user experience.

Capacity/Performance: Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization in partnership with development and operations teams.

Documentation: Create and maintain clear documentation and knowledge base articles to promote knowledge sharing.

Disaster Recovery: Recommend and implement improvements to disaster recovery plans, backup strategies, and failover mechanisms.

Incident Response:

Lead incident response as a subject matter expert, including identification, triage, resolution, and post-incident analysis.

Identify and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and efficiency through data and root cause analysis.

Participate in an oncall rotation to support critical production incidents. You’ll join a globally distributed team that provides 24/7 coverage, ensuring fast triage, coordinated response, and seamless resolution of ‑high priority‑ issues.

Application Enhancement: Partner with development, QA, DevOps, and product teams to influence design and drive application resiliency improvements.

Continuous Learning: Continue your skill development progress through product training and technical training with Pluralsight across multiple technologies.

What you bring :

4 to 8 Years of Experience in IT Industry

Mainframe Technologies (Required): COBOL, RPG, JCL, CICS, SQL, CL, DDS, DDL, JES.

Modern Languages & Frameworks (Required): Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JDBC, Angular, Oracle PL/SQL.

Automation & IaC (Required): Python/Bash/PowerShell scripting, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps.

Monitoring Tools (Preferred): Splunk, Dynatrace, Resolve, Nobl9, JMeter, Zabbix.

Added bonus if you have :

Experience with development environments and tools including V7.4, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, MDCMS, Git, and Microsoft Office tools such as Visio, RDi, X Analysis, Hawkeye, and CheckMarx.