Job Description
Location San Antonio, TX / Plano, TX - onsite
Contract
Rate $ 61
Job Summary
Seeking an experienced Mainframe Technical Lead (L3) to lead and manage a team supporting enterprise z/OS infrastructure and Mainframe DB2 environments. Responsible for platform availability, performance, security, modernization, incident resolution, and operational excellence across z/OS, CICS, DB2, Storage, RACF, and supporting subsystem technologies. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, customer engagement, team development, and governance for 24x7 mission-critical environments.
Key Responsibilities
Contract
Rate $ 61
Job Summary
Seeking an experienced Mainframe Technical Lead (L3) to lead and manage a team supporting enterprise z/OS infrastructure and Mainframe DB2 environments. Responsible for platform availability, performance, security, modernization, incident resolution, and operational excellence across z/OS, CICS, DB2, Storage, RACF, and supporting subsystem technologies. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, customer engagement, team development, and governance for 24x7 mission-critical environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor Mainframe Systems Programmers and DB2 Administrators across onsite, offshore, and nearshore teams.
- Provide L3 support for complex z/OS, CICS, DB2, JES, RACF, USS, storage, and subsystem-related issues.
- Manage installation, configuration, migration, customization, maintenance, and upgrades of z/OS and ISV products.
- Drive incident, problem, change, capacity, availability, and performance management activities.
- Perform RCA, implement preventive actions, and ensure compliance with SLA and operational commitments.
- Lead IPL activities, maintenance deployments (RSU/SMP-E), software refreshes, hardware upgrades, and disaster recovery testing.
- Define operational procedures, automation strategies, backup/recovery plans, and governance standards.
- Oversee Mainframe DB2 administration including subsystem management, utilities, backup/recovery, performance tuning, security, capacity planning, migrations, and database availability.
- Partner with application teams on DB2 performance optimization, SQL tuning, and database best practices.
- Drive automation initiatives using REXX, JCL, z/OSMF, Ansible, and monitoring tools to improve operational efficiency.
- Identify skill gaps, develop training plans, and ensure continuous capability improvement within the team.
- Expert knowledge of z/OS, MVS, JES2/JES3, Parallel Sysplex, GDPS, WLM, Catalog Management, PARMLIB, PROCLIB, USS, HMC, LPAR, IPL, Standalone Dumps, SMP/E, and RSU maintenance.
- Strong experience with RACF, JCL, REXX, CLIST, Assembler Exits, Control-M, Connect:Direct (NDM), z/OS Connect, and ISV product administration.
- Strong knowledge of CICS administration, including CEMT, CEDA, transaction processing, subsystem connectivity, high availability, and performance management.
- Deep understanding of DB2 for z/OS, including subsystem administration, utilities, RUNSTATS, REORG, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, SQL tuning, locking, buffer pools, security, and capacity management.
- Experience with RMF, SMF, performance analysis, capacity planning, workload optimization, and availability management.
- Experience supporting and maintaining enterprise monitoring and automation platforms such as NetView, System Automation (SA z/OS), BMC MainView, OMEGAMON, and Ansible.
- 10+ years of Mainframe infrastructure experience with proven technical leadership experience.
- Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience supporting large-scale 24x7 production environments.
- Strong documentation, governance, audit, and operational process management skills.
- Ability to lead critical incidents, manage escalations, and handle high-pressure situations.
- Strong mentoring, coaching, and team development capabilities.
- IBM z/OS and DB2 certifications.
- ITIL certification.
- Experience with Mainframe Automation, AIOps, Observability, Performance & Capacity Management, and Mainframe modernization initiatives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | San Antonio, TX |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 20 to 49 employees |
| Year Founded | 2014 |
| Website | http://www.tekfortune.com/ |
About Company
Tekfortune is a software solutions company providing project development and staff augmentation services to companies in various industries including Healthcare, Banking, Finance, Telecommunication and Aviation.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
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