Senior z/OSMF Workflow Automation Engineer
- Location: Remote
- Contract Length: 4 Months
We at Raise are hiring a Senior z/OSMF Workflow Automation Engineer for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop z/OSMF workflows for end-to-end DR failover and failback orchestration.
- Translate existing manual DR runbooks and operational procedures into executable automation workflows.
- Implement conditional logic, task dependencies, prerequisite validation, checkpoints, validation gates, restart/re-entry, timeout and exception handling, rollback/recovery, and operator approval points.
- Automate and orchestrate z/OS shutdown, startup, and IPL sequencing across participating systems and LPARs.
- Integrate workflows with IBM Z HMC automation for LPAR and hardware-related operations.
- Integrate IBM Z System Automation for controlled subsystem shutdown, startup, validation, and recovery.
- Integrate Dell EMC storage replication, failover, and failback automation, including prerequisite and completion validation.
- Coordinate and integrate Cisco ACI or other network automation required during Site-Swap.
- Integrate existing infrastructure automation developed using REXX, Python, Ansible, and AWX.
- Build pre-flight and post-execution validation to confirm infrastructure and application readiness before proceeding.
- Design workflows that can safely stop, recover, and resume without restarting the complete DR process.
- Provide logging, audit trails, status reporting, and troubleshooting information for operators and support teams.
- Support DR testing exercises, resolve defects, and refine automation based on test outcomes.
- Produce technical design, workflow support, and operational documentation.
Required Skills and Experience
- Strong hands-on experience developing IBM z/OSMF workflow definitions and automation.
- Demonstrated delivery experience with complex orchestration involving dependencies, conditional execution, checkpoints, restartability, exception handling, recovery, rollback, and operator intervention.
- Strong knowledge of z/OS system operations, IPL processes, system initialization, and shutdown sequencing.
- Experience integrating automation with IBM Z System Automation.
- Experience with IBM Z HMC operations and automation.
- Practical experience with enterprise DR, Site-Swap, failover/failback, or comparable resiliency automation.
- Ability to interpret detailed operational runbooks and convert them into robust, supportable automation workflows.
- Strong cross-platform troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Highly Desirable Skills
- Python scripting and automation experience.
- Ansible and AWX automation experience.
- REXX development experience.
- Experience automating Dell EMC PowerMax/SRDF storage operations or comparable enterprise storage platforms.
- Experience with Cisco ACI or comparable network automation.
- Experience using REST APIs to integrate z/OSMF with external infrastructure and automation platforms.
- Experience delivering automation in financial-services or other highly regulated environments.
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