Greetings!

Our client Navy Federal Credit Union is the world's largest credit union with over 10 million members, over $149 billion in assets, and over 23,000 employees.

Our client is seeking an Mainframe DevOps Engineer-15759-Remote. You seem to have a rock-solid profile and your overall background seems to be a great match for the position.

Please review the below information for clarity on the position description.

Basic Purpose:

Responsible for the set-up, support, maintenance, and development of software lifecycle processes for mainframe platform. The goal is to modernize the mainframe processes to a modern CI/CD pipeline methodology. Candidate must have development aptitude to write build and deployment scripts and extensive latitude for independent judgment.

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Specific Qualifications:**

• Experience managing mainframe z/OS and USS systems, and a working understanding of overall mainframe architecture. Emphasis on identifying manual processes that can be automated.
• Experience with software lifecycle management in a mainframe environment, with goal to accomplish setting up DevOps and CI/CD methodologies on the mainframe system.
• Administrator experience with version control, change management and deployment tools such as ChangeMan ZMF and ChangeMan ZMF Client Pack
• Understanding of CICS, Db2, SQL, SDSF
• Knowledge of IBM High Level Assembler, IBM Enterprise COBOL, REXX, JCL, ISPF Dialog.
• Experience developing and building mainframe software.
• Proficiency in project analysis, functional areas, interoperability between areas, etc. to architect solutions to improve the processes.
• Ability to understand business problems and determine what aspects of them require optimization.

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Desired Qualifications:**

• Experience in Agile Software Development Methodology.
• Experience with IBM Dependency Based Build (DBB), IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD), IBM IDz (or other Eclipse-based IDE), RocketGit.
• Coordination of technology decisions with architectural requirements and constraints, including architecting and designing CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of Quality Control and Test Automation.

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Specific Duties:**

• Design, code, troubleshoot and support mainframe build and deployment processes.
• Process modernization of mainframe build and deployment processes.
• Provide Tier 2 and 3 on-call support for mainframe build and deployment processes.
• Administration of Software lifecycle tools (eg. ChangeMan ZMF).
• Identify and recommend process improvements.
• Document and maintain the mainframe related documentation.
• Support routine internal and external audits.

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A DevOps Engineer automates and streamlines processes for building, testing, and deploying software**

1. Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git)
2. Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
3. Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python)
4. Knowledge of containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes)