Software Development Engineer - Assembler, CICS (Omaha, NE)

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Job Title: Software Engineer - Assembler

Duration: 8 month contract to hire

Location: Omaha, NE - onsite

Required Pay Scale: $70-100/hr




Job Summary:

• Credit Card domain, mainframe shop
• Assembler is the programming language being used
• they also use CICS, MQ series, and VSAM
• little bit of DB2- not required
• production support is shared - once per couple of months
• there is a maintenance team and development team- this is on the dev team
• adding and enhancing apps from client requests and internal product enhancements, credit card domain
• Must haves:
  • Assembler
  • CICS
  • VSAM
• Nice to haves:
  • MQ series messaging application between different companies
    Finance domain since they are on the credit card side of the house
  • Bachelor s degree in computer science preferred
  • DB2

Full Job Description:
As a Software Developer Engineer, you will assume a key role in the day-to-day operations of the Technology Operation group within Issuer Solutions IT Operations. A hands-on candidate, you will be responsible for working with a team of associates and contractors, assigned projects, on-call escalations, service continuity and requests for immediate production or client assistance. In addition, you will work closely with product strategy, development and the technology groups to develop processes and operating procedures: monitor and triage problems, support the technology roadmap and address technology debt. This is a high-performance culture and you must demonstrate the ability to work efficiently and quickly in supporting critical systems.
Responsibilities include:

Hands-on experience in MVS Assembler.
Hands-on experience in Mainframe CICS.
Hands-on experience in Mainframe technologies and tools.
24x7 support of production applications on a rotating basis and participate in resolution of escalated incident calls.
Monitor and ensure the integrity of production systems on a day-to-day basis to ensure uninterrupted services and SLAs are met.
Responsible for, configuration management, continuous integration (CI), static and dynamic code analysis, deployment and application monitoring.
Automate and evolve infrastructure, server, deployment strategies and testing to support and quick turnaround of deployments.
Maintain and/or create technical support documentation.
Maintain the certification, Disaster Recovery and Production Environment with regards to upkeep of application functionality.
Perform code installations working with development and Quality Control to monitor and validate successful implementation or fallback. When fallback occurs, perform post mortems to identify root cause (RCA).
Continuously improve our infrastructure to be easy to deploy, scalable, secure and fault-tolerant.
Participate in capacity planning, tuning systems stability, provisioning, performance, and scaling of the application infrastructure. Perform trending and analysis of problems; anticipate problems and develop risk mitigation plans for continuous improvement.
Works with Change Management/ Release Managers on the evaluation of change events and in planning items for production deployment Perform code installations working with development and Quality Control to monitor and validate successful implementation or fallback.



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