Job Location: Belgium
Job Category: Infrastructure
Job Type: Full Time
Mission context
The DevEx tribe has at its mission to improve the overall way of developing software, by taking a people-centric approach on those who are involved in the day of day of crafting software. The tribe supports the IT organization through process, coaching, training, technical leadership as well as tooling in support of the E2E value stream of in-house Software Development.
As a member of the agile team, the dev engineer applies several useful skills (analysis/design/development/testing/integration), which in combination with the skills of the other members of the team compose all required skills to deliver a product at the end of each sprint.
Function description
- Provide technical support to developers and technical analysts
- Provide support and advice regarding the quality and performance of mainframe applications
- Define best practices for development squads’ coordination of all modifications for different infra components and environments to improve the tools and framework in collaboration with mainframe specialists
- Participate in infra projects, proof of concepts, and customizations of new products
Required experience/knowledge
- At least 6 years of relevant experience
- broad knowledge and experience with Cobol, IMS, DB2
- experience with development tools used in domain: Endevor, EDZ, ZOS Connect, IBM/Broadcom tools
- extensive experience in technical management of online and batch applications
- Good understanding of mainframe architecture (hardware, OS, networking, databases, middleware)
- experience with integration using different technologies (distributes/mainframe) and infra components
- open DevOps mindset on new tech/frameworks that will facilitate the Mainframe developer experience.
- experience with integration using different technologies (distributes/mainframe) and infra components
- experience with Z/OS Explorer as GUI for Z/OS Connect, IBM File Manager and Fault Analyzer, debugger, …
- Office 365 Access, Java, .NET
- Capacity/ performance monitoring and optimization of applicative elements (routines, programs, schedules …)
- experience with GitLab
- experience with Dynatrace (dashboard, analysis)
Soft skills
- excellent analysis skills
- team spirit
- efficient communication skills
- ambitious towards the targets of his/her squad
- agile values: focussed, committed, open, respectful, courageous
- promote continuous improvement (market evolutions, working methods, …) to improve delivery speed of software and hardware, and to improve operational quality