Mainframe Platform Engineer

Job Title: Mainframe Platform Engineer
Location: Manchester
Salary/Rate: Up to £500 Per Day (Inside IR35)
Start Date: July
Job Type: Contract

Company Introduction:
We are currently representing a large UK bank who have assets totalling more than £25 billion!

Job Responsibilities/Objectives:
We are currently recruiting for a major UK bank who are on the lookout for a highly skilled Mainframe Platform Engineer for an exciting 6 month contract.

* Challenge, design, implement and oversee tooling and processes to automate and simplify build, development and release activities, reducing waste and driving innovation through a culture of continuous improvement.
* Act as a broad Technical expert in CICS environments and solution delivery on our z/OS IBM Mainframe.
* Provide technical guidance on products and sub-systems residing in the Mainframe environment; CICS environment management (establishing CSD resource definitions of files & transactions for example).
* Collaborate with developers, architects, testers and the wider organisation to smooth the process of building, running and maintaining Mainframe environments and code/config management.
* Assist with incidents to provide challenge, insight and agreement in diagnosis by 3rd parties.
* Monitor live services, identifying opportunities to improve and refine.
* Ensure adherence to governance processes.
* Support the Bank Change and Release Management processes.
* Support an optimized change delivery capability for both Business and IT driven change.
* Actively engage with stakeholders, taking ownership of requirements.
* Mentor and coach junior team members as well as participate in activity which helps transfer knowledge to team members in order to increase and propagate technical skills across the wider bank's technical teams.

Skills/Experience:
The ideal candidate will have the following:

* Practical, advanced knowledge in a CICS Technical role, designing, implementing and supporting technical solutions on a z/OS Mainframe platform.
* Experience championing a culture shift to DevOps principles - automating as much of the software development life cycle as possible.
* Working knowledge of z/OS Connect API delivery, MQ, Endevor Administration experience and GIT would be a distinct advantage.
* Working knowledge of Mainframe Infra.
* Ability to develop and maintain technical documentation and instructional procedures.
* Good knowledge of VSAM concepts and Access Method services
* Basic knowledge of z/OS Communications Server concepts
* In-depth practical experience/understanding across a range of Mainframe products and technologies.
* Workload scheduling & Automation; CA-7 & CA-11 & CA-OPSMVS
* Coding & Scripting acumen and TSO familiarity; REXX, JCL, TSO, ISPF, SDSF and CLIST
* Mainframe utilities such as, DFDSS, SORT, File Manager, DFSMS, DFHSM, Datacom
* Problem management functions like IBM's Debug Tool and Fault Analyser
* CICS Tailoring (CEDA resource definition) and environment management tools; Omegamon for CICS

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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