Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BizTech Fusion LLC is hiring for one of its clients. The company is seeking a Senior Mainframe Batch Operations Engineer to manage JobTrac-based production control, batch scheduling, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization in enterprise mainframe environments. The role also supports production issue resolution, application deployments, documentation, and legacy-system modernization initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Manage and provide technical support for **Mainframe Production Control and batch operations using Computer Associates JobTrac R11**
- Schedule, modify, submit, and monitor daily production mainframe jobs
- Manage nightly batch schedules and make scheduling adjustments to optimize mainframe resource utilization
- Monitor automated and manually submitted jobs and ensure critical production workloads complete within required SLAs
- Perform daily and weekly batch balancing and production control activities
- Modify and troubleshoot **JCL** as required by application programmers and operations teams
- Analyze batch execution issues, abends, delays, and performance problems and identify root causes
- Optimize production batch schedules and job runtimes to improve operational efficiency
- Support **on-demand and immediate-execution batch job scheduling**
- Provide technical support for batch failures, late critical batches, and production service restoration activities
- Work closely with mainframe developers on production issues, code reviews, testing, and application fixes
- Participate in testing and implementation of new batch processes and application releases
- Develop and maintain operational procedures, runbooks, scheduling documentation, and production support documentation
- Support application deployment activities and assist with creating and expanding application environments
- Provide technical assistance to programmers and operations personnel for mainframe-related production issues
- Participate in daily status meetings and provide production status updates to technical teams and management
- Coordinate with infrastructure, network, customer support, and application development teams to resolve production issues
- Support both **legacy mainframe applications and mainframe transformation/modernization initiatives**
Skills
- **14+ years of mainframe / production control / batch operations experience**
- Strong hands-on experience with **Computer Associates JobTrac R11**
- Mainframe batch and console operations
- **z/OS / MVS**
- **JCL** development, analysis, debugging, and troubleshooting
- **COBOL** and batch/CICS COBOL
- **VSAM**
- **IMS**
- **CICS**
- TSO/ISPF
- IBM utilities and z/OS programs
- JobTrac for z/OS
- Batch scheduling, monitoring, dependencies, and production control
- On-demand/immediate batch job scheduling
- Batch abend analysis and production problem resolution
- Complex JCL troubleshooting
- **REXX** development, analysis, and debugging in z/OS environments
- FTP, SFTP, and NFTP
- Batch **SFTP/FTPS** processing
- IMS utilities, including **FileAid for IMS**
- **BPXBATCH** processing for remote execution
- Mainframe printer assignment and administration
- Working knowledge of **IPPrintway**
- **Informatica** and batch/ETL processing
- * Experience supporting large-scale enterprise mainframe production environments
- * Experience working with application development and infrastructure teams
- * Experience supporting legacy system modernization or mainframe transformation projects
- * Strong understanding of production control procedures, change management, and operational standards
- * Experience creating operational documentation, procedures, and troubleshooting guides
- * Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and problem-solving skills
- * Experience working in SLA-driven production environments and supporting critical batch workloads
Benefits
- 100% Remote – USA
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