What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mainframe Consultant position at SAGE IT?
Mainframe Consultant
Location: Tampa, FL / Arlington, VA (Hybrid)
Duration: Full Time
Note – Need Core Mainframe profile.
Job Description:
· Thought Leadership with extensive knowledge in legacy modernization techniques related tools and approaches.
· Understanding of z/OS, AS400 platforms and categorize workloads for migration
· Experience leading customers with mainframe and legacy modernization initiatives.
· General knowledge on assessment techniques to derive the modernization solution for legacy customers
· Hands on experience with CAST highlight and CAST imaging software
· Experience in extracting business rules from mainframe programming languages like COBOL, PL1, Natural etc.
· Knowledge on Micofocus and Heirloom products used for discovery, migration/modernization
· Designing AWS or Azure or GCP or Openshift architectures which meet or exceed the requirements of workloads coming from mainframe and legacy infrastructures.
· Architecting, developing and modernizing customer applications/systems to be cloud or on-premise platform ready
· Working as a technical leader alongside customer business, development and infrastructure teams.
· Agile software development and DevOps.
· Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment.
· 10 years of hands-on technical experience with mainframe, non-x86 legacy systems and with technologies such as COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2 for z/OS, Assembler, PL/I, Java, Rexx, flat/sequential files, GDGs, and VSAM.
· 10 years of experience designing architectures for enterprise systems.
· 5 years of experience in a technical lead role migrating workloads from mainframe and non-x86 legacy systems to distributed x86 infrastructures on-premises or in the Cloud;
· 5 years of experience integrating mainframe and non-x86 legacy systems with distributed Linux-based or Windows-based x86 servers.
· Experience with tools and methodologies used to migrate mainframe workloads via re-platforming or rewrite
· Experience with analyzing on-prem mainframe applications and data stores to formulate plans for modernizing workloads that achieve customer’s desired business outcomes.
· Current hands-on implementation experience.
· Experience with zD&T, Microfocus and data conversion tools.
· Experience with COBOL modernization and porting application code across platforms.
· Experience with proprietary legacy data store migration to relational databases.
· Experience with legacy systems data replication or messaging.
· Knowledge on designing Mongo DB, Bigframe or any datalake solutions is an added advantage.
Regards,
Sunkari Vamshi Goud
Sr. Technical Recruiter
Sage IT Inc
3011 Internet Blvd, Suite-110|Frisco, TX – 75034
Direct: (945)-732-4096 | Desk: 1 (972) 996-0650 EXT: 453
E-mail: gsunkari@sageitinc.net |Web: www.sageitinc.com
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