What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Mainframe Services position at Calibro Corp.?
Direct Hire- Occasionally onsite
Role will require 3 days on site per week for the first month of employment.
Job Description:
The Director of Mainframe Services is responsible for leading operations of the mainframe infrastructure and technical team which support our environment. In this role we will ask you to focus on resiliency and incident prevention and come with experience of mainframe technology along with related platform management experience such as hardware and software contracts, budgeting, and financial foresight.
Responsibilities
Role will require 3 days on site per week for the first month of employment.
Job Description:
The Director of Mainframe Services is responsible for leading operations of the mainframe infrastructure and technical team which support our environment. In this role we will ask you to focus on resiliency and incident prevention and come with experience of mainframe technology along with related platform management experience such as hardware and software contracts, budgeting, and financial foresight.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and oversight to a mainframe technical team
- Support multiple priorities and goals in a fast-paced work environment
- Engage in budget activities along with contract governance for mainframe hardware, software, and statements of work
- Contribute to the short- and long-term strategic roadmaps for the mainframe platform
- Incident management leadership and presentation of root cause analysis
- Develop, improve, and present operational metrics and documentation
- Provide input and follow-through for continuous improvement to Mainframe processes and procedures via RACIs.
- Provide mentorship to operations team to improve service availability, scalability, security, and performance
- Evaluate, coordinate, and approve changes to the environment, with a focus on quality Education/Experience
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance
- Ten years in Management / Leadership role in an IBM z/OS and z/VM environments
- Knowledge of Mainframe licensing, hardware and software contracts, consumption models, IBM billing, etc.
- Deep experience with disaster recovery, resiliency and incident prevention
- Detailed understanding of mainframe technology along with related platform management experience such as hardware and software contracts, budgeting, and financial foresight
- Strong background in mainframe systems planning, design, and implementation