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Mainframe z/OS Developer

Karthik Consulting, LLC

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Job Requirements

Remote
Clearance Unspecified Polygraph not specified
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$95,000 - $100,000

Job Description

For more than a decade, Karthik Consulting has been a reliable and trusted advisor to our Government customers, providing independent and unbiased recommendations and solutions to mitigate risk and help solve IT issues. We bring the innovation, passion, and agility of the commercial sector to meet the unique challenges of this competitive space.

Karthik Consulting is seeking Mainframe z/OS Developer with the below skillset.

Mainframe z/OS Developer
Fulltime with Karthik Consulting
Location: Remote
Clearance: Public Trust Clearance
Salary $100000 per year


Program Description

Required
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with COBOL programming on IBM z/OS.
• Proficiency in JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS, and CICS.
• Experience in mainframe migration projects or modernization initiatives is preferred.
• Familiarity with mainframe communication tools such as CICS and mainframe security protocols, including RACF.

Technical Skills
• Must be proficient in JCL, COBOL, VSAM, and CICS.
• Strong knowledge of batch processing and online transaction processing.
• Must have experience with IBM utilities, TSO/ISPF, and Abend-AID.
• Experience with Control-D, Control-M, File-AID
• Knowledge of best practices in mainframe migration planning, including risk assessment and resource management.
• Familiarity with AI/ML tools (CoPilot, WatsonX, ReDux, others) for code analysis, pattern recognition, or modernization support.
• Understanding of AI-driven code refactoring platforms/products and the ability to leverage AI to improve testing, documentation, and process optimization.

Soft Skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, especially for collaborating on mainframe integration with Java developers and migration planning.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment with a focus on quality and attention to detail.

Preferred
• Experience with DevOps practices on mainframes, including tools like Jenkins and Git.
• Prior experience with performance tuning on mainframe systems
• Prior experience with ServiceNow
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Karthik Consulting (KC) is a CMMI-DEV Maturity Level 3 rated, ISO 9001, 27001, and 20000-1 registered IT consulting firm. The vision of KC is to bring the innovation, passion, and agility of the commercial IT industry to meet the unique challenges of the government. Whether you are looking for someone to: help develop your IT strategy; assess a problem and recommend solutions; resolve a particular systems integration challenge; implement Agile software development; or improve your SDLC processes, KC has experts who can provide you an independent and unbiased recommendation, implement the solution, and be your trusted advisor.

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Job Category
IT - Software
Clearance Level
Unspecified