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Senior z/OS Systems Administrator | Long Term Contract | Remote(EST/CST)

Two95 International Inc.United States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 24 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This long-term remote contract offers you the chance to advance your z/OS administration skills, leveraging your expertise in SMP/E and REXX scripting to drive critical system maintenance and automation. You'll thrive in this role if you enjoy complex problem-solving and contributing to a vital technology infrastructure, with the flexibility to work remotely from EST/CST time zones. This is an excellent opportunity to make a significant impact and further develop your career.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Temporary/Casual
Work mode
Remote
Location
United States
Posted
Yesterday

Job Description

Title: Z/os System Administrator

Location: Remote

Type: Long Term Contract

Rate: $Open/hr.

Key Responsibilities

  • Install, configure, maintain, and support IBM z/OS operating systems and related system software.
  • Perform z/OS upgrades, maintenance, system modifications, and lifecycle management.
  • Provide advanced administration and troubleshooting of z/OS environments.
  • Use SMP/E (System Modification Program/Extended) extensively for installation, maintenance, upgrades, PTFs, APARs, HOLDDATA processing, and management of IBM and third-party software.
  • Analyze SMP/E environments, zones, CSI datasets, SYSMODs, and maintenance requirements.
  • Develop and maintain REXX scripts to automate z/OS administration, monitoring, reporting, maintenance, and operational processes.
  • Identify manual processes that can be improved through REXX-based automation.
  • Administer and support IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF).
  • Configure and maintain z/OSMF services, workflows, plugins, and system management functions.
  • Utilize z/OSMF for system management, configuration, monitoring, and automation.
  • Perform system problem determination, root-cause analysis, and resolution of complex z/OS issues.
  • Monitor system performance, availability, capacity, and overall system health.
  • Work with operations, application, storage, network, security, and database teams to resolve mainframe infrastructure issues.
  • Participate in system upgrades, migrations, disaster recovery testing, and infrastructure modernization initiatives.
  • Maintain system documentation, operating procedures, configuration standards, and technical runbooks.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other mainframe systems administrators.
  • Participate in production support and on-call activities as required.

If Interested please send your updated resume to:rehana.j@two95intl.comand include your rate/Salary requirement along with your contact details with a suitable time when we can reach you. If you know of anyone in your sphere of contacts, who would be a perfect match for this job then, we would appreciate if you can forward this posting to them with a copy to us.

We look forward to hearing from you at the earliest

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