ALTA IT Services is staffing a contract to hire opportunity for a Mainframe Systems Engineer to support a leading health insurance customer.

Mainframe Systems Programmer

Washington, DC (Mostly remote, onsite for meetings as needed)

6 Months Contract to Hire

8-10 Years' Experience of senior Mainframe Systems Programmer background is required

• Infrastructure Engineer with a hands-on experience
• Building robust Mainframe environments
• Scripting and process Automation experience Required
• Extensive knowledge of Mainframe Systems methodology and frameworks

The position requires advance knowledge of configurating Development and Production environments comprised of the below listed components:

• 5-10 years of z/OS Systems Programming experience
• CICS TS for z/OS
• CICS Webservices
• MQ for z/OS
• DB2 for z/OS
• Control-M for z/OS
• IBM System Automation for z/OS
• REXX Programming
• z/OSMF - Working Knowledge of Workflows

Candidate will be supporting various project teams and their mainframe related needs on a day-to-day basis.

Candidate will be leveraging their skills to automate configuration processes on the mainframe using above toolset.

• Extensive knowledge of MQ Series
• Extensive SDLC experience with some development or Systems programming experience
• Ability to analyze and trouble-shoot Mid-tier/infrastructure issues.
• Very strong verbal and written communication skills (Critical)
• Ability to facilitate technical requirements gathering and design sessions
• Collaborate and interpret business and technical needs
• Excellent attention to detail and quality work products (Critical)
• Strong customer service skills with internal and external customers (Critical)
• Must be able to perform assigned tasks with minimum supervision (Critical)
• Strong analytical and documentation skills
• Excellent time management ability (Critical)

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