Mainframe Engineer

OSC EdgeTech, LLC is seeking a talented Mainframe Engineer to join the team.

OSC EdgeTech is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI), an Alaska Native Corporation proudly owned by over 9,400 Shareholders. OSC EdgeTech was created to deliver agile, responsive IT solutions to meet the evolving needs of federal and defense customers. As an SBA-certified 8(a) entity with a Facility Clearance (FCL), OSC EdgeTech streamlines the acquisition process while maintaining the trusted quality, security, and innovation that define OSC Edge.

Cook Inlet Region, Inc., also known as CIRI, is one of 12 land-based Alaska Native regional corporations created pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). CIRI’s regional boundaries roughly follow the traditional Dena’ina territory of Southcentral Alaska. CIRI was incorporated on June 8, 1972, and is owned today by a diverse group of more than 9,500 Shareholders who live in Alaska and throughout the world.

OSC EdgeTech offers excellent benefits for eligible employees. Benefits include paid holidays, paid time off, 401K with employer match, dental, vision, health insurance plans, as well as life and disability benefits.

Position Overview

The Mainframe Engineer provides technical support for Mainframe engineering and administration, system upgrades, incident response, service degradations, outages, and other service interruptions relating to the Mainframe environment. This position will investigate hardware and software problems related to the Mainframe infrastructure and perform corrective actions.

Major Activities

Architect, design, and document mirrored Mainframe services, which support the Government’s objectives for application provisioning, utility, functions, COOP capabilities, and protection of hosted data.

Make recommendations for components and upgrades that are needed to modernize the Mainframe environment over time.

Receive, install, sustain all components needed to fully provision two mirrored Mainframe systems located at geographically dispersed Data Centers.

Support and sustain mission specific applications running in the Mainframe environment.

Perform senior system administration tasks including configuring local and remote storage; partitioning; starting and stopping services; configuring and sustaining file systems; shell scripting; setting kernel run-time parameters; configuring network services such as file sharing, web, Secure Shell (SSH), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and/or Secure FTP (SFTP); and managing user accounts and roles on Mainframe systems.

Create high availability clusters, manage logical volumes and snapshots, configure enterprise management systems, and deploy and manage Enterprise Systems in a scalable, efficient manner; build and release updates and configuration changes using a central package manager toolset; and create version control repositories.

Create organizations, users, and roles in the system/patch management system; and manages software channels and errata.

Support application upgrades and deployments.

Use system tools to analyze and improve the performance of enterprise systems and applications running on the Mainframe for specific workloads and performance parameters.

Create, maintain, extend ESB services to Mainframe-hosted applications, develop enterprise integration patterns to route, mediate, and transform messages and other information flows between Mainframe services and hosted applications.

Design and implement directory services and authentication for enterprise environments and configure Mainframe systems to use directory services and network authentication services.

Create and update container images and links to containers as well as automate the management and deployment of systems in an enterprise environment.

Implement monitoring to further enable management of application systems running on the Mainframe as well as deploy updates and patches for both Government and commercial software; detect, isolate, troubleshoot, and resolve Mainframe issues.

Execute break-fix actions on failed applications, print jobs, and batch jobs.

Implement and support the testing of Disaster Recovery (DR) for all systems and COOP operations of those enterprise systems as designated; and support the DR/COOP testing of the Mainframe system every 90 days.

Plan, execute, and document Mainframe baseline configuration specification changes (hardware, software, operating system, etc.).

Perform other duties as appropriate and as assigned.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

IT technical background & mainframe programming experience

Advanced knowledge in all components of software delivery with concentration in requirements, design, and development.

Advanced knowledge or troubleshooting and resolving incidents with government mainframes.

Advanced knowledge of application support tasks like systems support, security reviews, and maintenance tasks.

Advanced knowledge performing mainframe testing

Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, excellent organizational and multi-tasking skills.

Great analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.

Superior customer service skills.

Adaptable and capable of working in fast-paced environments.

Required Qualifications

High School Diploma or equivalent

10 or more years of mainframe Development experience with design, analysis, and coding: COBOL (CICS), JCL, CICS, CA7, etc.

Valid Sec+ Certification

Must be US citizen

Must possess active secret security clearance or higher

Must be able to pass pre-employment background check

E-Verify:

OSC EdgeTech participates in E-Verify. We will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

Reasonable Accommodation:

OSC EdgeTech, LLC will provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with OSC EdgeTech, LLC or any of its subsidiaries, please email .