Mainframe Automation Engineer
Austin, TX - USA
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Mainframe Automation Engineer to join our client team and support enterprise-scale IBM Z this role you will focus on designing implementing and maintaining automation solutions across complex z/OS infrastructures helping ensure system stability resiliency and seamless operations in high-availability environments.
You will collaborate closely with infrastructure and mainframe engineering teams to build scalable automation workflows improve operational efficiency and support mission-critical business systems.
- Design develop and maintain automation workflows using Broadcom OPS/MVS and System State Manager
- Develop and optimize REXX scripts for automation monitoring and operational processes
- Configure and support automation failover capabilities across multi-site environments
- Collaborate with infrastructure and mainframe teams to design and implement automation solutions
- Gather business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable automation designs
- Troubleshoot production incidents batch processing failures and system issues
- Analyze system behavior and identify opportunities to improve reliability resiliency and automation coverage
- Follow change management processes including code reviews and version control using Git
- Create and maintain technical documentation runbooks and operational procedures
- Support knowledge sharing training and team enablement initiatives
- Proven experience working with Mainframe / IBM Z environments in enterprise organizations
- Strong knowledge of z/OS operating systems and automation concepts
- Hands-on experience with Broadcom OPS/MVS System State Manager or similar automation platforms
- Advanced expertise in REXX scripting
- Practical experience with COBOL CICS DB2 or IMS and JCL
- Experience supporting production environments including batch processing incident management and operational reliability
- Experience working with mainframe engineering and infrastructure teams in complex environments
- Understanding of high-availability disaster recovery and multi-site architectures
- Experience with Git and code review practices
- Strong analytical troubleshooting and communication skills
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field
- Professional English communication skills
- Experience with active-active or disaster recovery (DR) environments
- Experience driving automation improvements and operational excellence initiatives
- Advanced degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related discipline
- Work with large-scale enterprise IBM Z environments
- Contribute to highly available mission-critical systems
- Collaborate with experienced mainframe and infrastructure professionals
- Drive automation initiatives that have a direct impact on operational stability and efficiency
- Opportunity to work on complex technical challenges in a distributed global environment