Position: Senior DevOps Engineer #7569
Company: Lohika
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

The Mainframe DevOps Engineer will work directly with clients and business partners to support them on proof of concept and migration primarily on testing tools. You will play a key advisory role in Source Code Management (SCM) migration projects from library managers traditionally used in mainframe development shops, to modern SCM such as git.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a member of DevOps Tooling Team, you will need to:
Interface to the transformation project teams to handle product and tooling enhancements requests
Contribute to the development of assets and collateral's that will contribute to make the migration services offering repeatable at a large scale.
Provide technical enablement to clients, sellers and business partners and develop long-term relationships through managing and interpreting their requirements
Provide technical assistance and product education
Have a deep understanding of the IBM Z DevOps portfolio
Play an advisory role or directly lead transformation projects and leverage business partners as needed for execution

EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
MUST HAVE:
z/OS knowledge – Familiarity with USS will be an added advantage
z/OS scripting knowledge (eg REXX, JCL)
Basic scripting knowledge (eg Groovy, Python)
Knowledge of modern SCMs and pipeline coordinators such as Git and Jenkins.
Understanding of DevOps principles, including modern Agile/Lean development processes

WOULD BE A PLUS:
Experience as a JAVA developer
Operations / System Programmer background
Skills on application mapping tooling
A first experience in migration projects with support for changing the habits of the end users, and also having a good understanding of the difficulties of integrating tools in complex ecosystems should be a plus.
Knowledge of legacy SCMs like Endevor, Changeman, Panvalet, SCLM, etc...