Senior Production Support - Mainframe

Alquemy
  • Toronto, ON
    12 days ago

    Job Description


    Senior Production Support - Mainframe

    Position Overview

    We are seeking an experienced Senior Production Support - Mainframe to support critical enterprise applications and services. This role will focus on incident recovery, problem management, change and release support, and maintaining service stability across global environments.

    Responsibilities
    • Lead incident investigation and service recovery, coordinating technical teams and stakeholders through resolution.
    • Monitor and communicate service impact, recovery progress, and escalation activities.
    • Investigate recurring issues, participate in root-cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement.
    • Maintain knowledge articles, runbooks, and operational documentation.
    • Support change and release activities, including disaster recovery testing, patching, and system upgrades.
    • Ensure adherence to incident, change, release, and service management processes.
    • Collaborate with global teams across multiple regions and support changing priorities or schedules as required.

    Requirements
    • 5–7 years of production support and/or application development experience.
    • Strong understanding of IT infrastructure, production support, and service stability.
    • Mainframe experience with CICS, DB2, COBOL, MQ, TWS, and SPUFI.
    • Knowledge of incident, problem, change, release, and disaster recovery management.
    • Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and escalation skills.
    • Experience working with global and virtual teams.
    • Familiarity with AI productivity tools such as Microsoft Copilot or Claude.

    Nice to Have
    • Experience in banking, payments, or financial services.
    • Knowledge of SQL, Java/J2EE, Unix, Oracle, MQ, and WebSphere.
    • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as AppDynamics, Splunk, or Geneos.
    • Networking knowledge.
    • ITIL certification.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationToronto, ON

    Skills

    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Banking Servicesunmatched
    • Cobol Programming Languageunmatched
    • Continuous Improvementunmatched
    • Disaster Recoveryunmatched
    • Documentationunmatched
    • Enterprise Applicationsunmatched
    • Financial Servicesunmatched
    • IBM CICS (Customer Information Control System)unmatched
    • IBM DB2unmatched
    • IBM WebSphere Application Serverunmatched
    • ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library)unmatched
    • Identify Issuesunmatched
    • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
    • Javaunmatched
    • Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE/J2EE)unmatched
    • Mainframe Computerunmatched
    • Maintain Complianceunmatched
    • Messaging Middlewareunmatched
    • Microsoft Product Familyunmatched
    • Oracle MessageQunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Process Improvementunmatched
    • Production Supportunmatched
    • Release Management/Engineeringunmatched
    • Root Cause Analysisunmatched
    • SPUFI (SQL Processing Using File Input)unmatched
    • SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
    • Software Administrationunmatched
    • Software Developmentunmatched
    • Software Patchesunmatched
    • Splunkunmatched
    • Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
    • Technical Leadershipunmatched
    • Unix Operating Systemsunmatched

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