About this role
Salary: £132,000 - 144,000 per year
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience with CA7 in an IBM mainframe environment
- Practical experience creating and maintaining batch schedules, job dependencies, and triggers
- Strong working knowledge of z/OS and JCL, with familiarity using TSO/ISPF and SDSF
- Experience investigating batch failures, interpreting job output, and supporting safe restart and recovery
- A track record of developing or maintaining automation in a mainframe environment
- Experience supporting production services and working within established incident, problem, and change management processes
- A detailed and methodical approach, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly and work effectively across support teams
- Desirable: REXX scripting
- Desirable: OPS/MVS or other mainframe system automation tools
- Desirable: CA11 or comparable batch restart and recovery tooling
- Desirable: CA7 platform administration, configuration, or maintenance
- Desirable: Experience improving batch performance and reducing manual operational activity
Responsibilities
- Create, maintain, and amend CA7 job definitions, schedules, calendars, triggers, and dependencies
- Monitor batch processing, investigate failed or delayed jobs, and resolve issues affecting production schedules
- Develop and maintain automation to improve workload management, reduce repetitive tasks, and support recovery processes
- Review batch dependencies and processing sequences, identifying opportunities to improve reliability and meet service deadlines
- Investigate JCL and scheduling issues, working with application and infrastructure teams to establish causes and implement fixes
- Support controlled changes to production schedules, including testing, implementation, and documentation
- Maintain operational procedures and share technical knowledge with colleagues and support teams
Technologies
- IBM
- IBM Mainframe
- Support
- JCL
- TSO
- TSO/ISPF
More
We are working with a mainframe services specialist seeking an experienced Mainframe Automation Engineer with strong CA7 expertise to support client environments. This is a hands-on technical role focused on complex mainframe workloads and reliable, timely processing. The position is remote, offered on a nine-month contract, with a rate of up to £550 GBP per day. ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
last updated 45 week of 2026