KTek Resourcing · 19 hours ago
Mainframe SRE Lead
Columbus, OH
Contract
Onsite
Lead/Staff
10+ years expKTek Resourcing is seeking a Mainframe SRE Lead responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, performance, and scalability of enterprise mainframe platforms. This role blends traditional mainframe engineering with modern SRE principles, focusing on automation, observability, incident management, and continuous improvement while guiding a team of engineers.
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Hiring Manager
Nikita Soni
Responsibilities
Lead the Mainframe SRE team, providing technical direction, mentoring, and performance guidance
Own the reliability, availability, and resilience of mainframe environments (z/OS and related subsystems)
Define and implement SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and reliability metrics
Drive automation to reduce manual operations, improve recovery time, and enhance system stability
Oversee monitoring, alerting, and observability for mainframe systems using modern and legacy tools
Lead incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews
Partner with application development teams to improve reliability, performance, and deployment practices
Plan and execute capacity management, performance tuning, and workload optimization
Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and audit requirements
Lead disaster recovery (DR) planning, testing, and high-availability strategies
Champion continuous improvement, DevOps, and SRE culture within mainframe operations
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in mainframe systems engineering or operations
Strong hands-on expertise with IBM z/OS
Experience with core mainframe components such as: CICS, IMS, DB2, JES2/JES3, MQ, SMF, SDSF
Solid understanding of mainframe performance tuning and capacity planning
Experience leading production support and managing major incidents
Strong scripting and automation skills (REXX, JCL, CLIST, Python, or equivalent)
Familiarity with monitoring and scheduling tools (e.g., OMEGAMON, CA/BMC tools, Control-M)
Preferred
Experience applying SRE principles in a mainframe or hybrid (mainframe + distributed) environment
Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD, and automation frameworks
Knowledge of Linux on Z and cloud integration patterns
Experience with resilience engineering, chaos testing, or fault injection concepts
Prior people-lead or technical-lead experience
Company
KTek Resourcing
KTek Resourcing is a staffing and recruiting company specializing in healthcare, oil, and gas human resources staffing solutions.
201-500 employees
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