
We are seeking experienced Mainframe Z/OS System Programmer/Admin to manage z/OS environments.
Job Title - Mainframe z/OS System Programmer
Experience - 4-8 Years
Location - Bangalore, Chennai, Pune [Hybrid/Remote]
Notice Period - Immediate Joiners Preferred
Job Overview
We seek an experienced Mainframe z/OS System Programmer to manage and support z/OS environments. The role includes system upgrades, performance monitoring, installations, troubleshooting, and expertise in ISV tools, JCL, scripting, and system utilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and support z/OS mainframe systems.
- zOS install and upgrade, PTF patch apply
- ISV tools installation and upgrade
- Parmlib, Proclib
- Perform SMP/E & Non-SMP/E installation of ISV products and manage upgrades (z/OS V2.5/V3.1).
- Configure and manage JES3/JES2, Sysplex, and related components.
- Configure and monitor TSO/E, ISPF, and basic scripting in REXX/CLIST.
- Plan and execute z/OS upgrade and maintenance roadmaps.
- Monitor system performance using tools like SMF and z/OS Health Checker.
- Support mainframe storage management (SMS/DFSMS) and backup/recovery processes.
- Resolve incidents using appropriate tools and perform diagnostics as required.
- Candidates with prior experience as a z/OS System Programmer, specializing exclusively in z/OS administration, are encouraged to apply.
Preferred Technical Skills
1. Mainframe zOS Admin
2. zOS install and upgrade, PTF patch apply
3. ISV tools installation and upgrade
4. Parmlib, Proclib
Note
The candidate must have prior experience working as a z/OS System Programmer with hands-on expertise in managing complex mainframe environments.

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Job Summary:
The Lead IaC Engineer will design, implement, automate, and maintain infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments. This role should have strong hands-on expertise in Chef, Python, Terraform, and some AWS & Windows administration knowledge.
8-12 years of experience
Primary Skills – Chef, Python, and Terraform
Secondary – AWS & Windows admin (Cloud is not mandatory)
You will be responsible for:
- Managing all DevOps and infrastructure for Sizzle
- We have both cloud and on-premise servers
- Work closely with all AI and backend engineers on processing requirements and managing both development and production requirements
- Optimize the pipeline to ensure ultra fast processing
- Work closely with management team on infrastructure upgrades
You should have the following qualities:
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, and CI/CD
- Deep experience in: Gitlab, Gitops, Ansible, Docker, Grafana, Prometheus
- Strong background in Linux system administration
- Deep expertise with AI/ML pipeline processing, especially with GPU processing. This doesn’t need to include model training, data gathering, etc. We’re looking more for experience on model deployment, and inferencing tasks at scale
- Deep expertise in Python including multiprocessing / multithreaded applications
- Performance profiling including memory, CPU, GPU profiling
- Error handling and building robust scripts that will be expected to run for weeks to months at a time
- Deploying to production servers and monitoring and maintaining the scripts
- DB integration including pymongo and sqlalchemy (we have MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases on our backend)
- Expertise in Docker-based virtualization including - creating & maintaining custom Docker images, deployment of Docker images on cloud and on-premise services, monitoring of production Docker images with robust error handling
- Expertise in AWS infrastructure, networking, availability
Optional but beneficial to have:
- Experience with running Nvidia GPU / CUDA-based tasks
- Experience with image processing in python (e.g. openCV, Pillow, etc)
- Experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB (Or SQL familiarity)
- Excited about working in a fast-changing startup environment
- Willingness to learn rapidly on the job, try different things, and deliver results
- Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or related field
- Ideally a gamer or someone interested in watching gaming content online
Skills:
DevOps, Ansible, CI/CD, GitLab, GitOps, Docker, Python, AWS, GCP, Grafana, Prometheus, python, sqlalchemy, Linux / Ubuntu system administration
Seniority: We are looking for a mid to senior level engineer
Salary: Will be commensurate with experience.
Who Should Apply:
If you have the right experience, regardless of your seniority, please apply.
Work Experience: 3 years to 6 years
3-5 years of experience in DevOps, systems administration, or software engineering roles.
B. Tech. in computer science or related field from top tier engineering colleges.
Strong technical skills in software development, systems administration, and cloud infrastructure management.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terra form or Cloud Formation.
Experience with containerization technologies such as Dockers and Kubernetes.
Experience with cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.
Experience with scripting languages such as Bash or Python.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Good knowledge of at least one language (C#, Java, Python, Go, PHP, Node.js)
- Have enough experience on application and infrastructure architectures
- Design and plan cloud solution architecture
- Design for security, network, and compliances
- Analyze and optimize technical and business processes
- Ensure solution and operational reliability
- Manage and provision cloud infrastructure
- Manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions
- Design strategies around cloud governance, migration, Cloud operations and DevOps
- Design highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud applications
- Build and test applications
- Deploy applications on cloud
- Integration with cloud services
Certification:
- Architect level certificate of any cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Job Description
- Implement IAM policies and configure VPCs to create a scalable and secure network for the application workloads
- Will be client point of contact for High Priority technical issues and new requirements
- Should act as Tech Lead and guide the junior members of team and mentor them
- Work with client application developers to build, deploy and run both monolithic and microservices based applications on AWS Cloud
- Analyze workload requirements and work with IT stakeholders to define proper sizing for cloud workloads on AWS
- Build, Deploy and Manage production workloads including applications on EC2 instance, APIs on Lambda Functions and more
- Work with IT stakeholders to monitor system performance and proactively improve the environment for scale and security
Qualifications
- Prefer to have at least 5+ years of IT experience implementing enterprise applications
- Should be AWS Solution Architect Associate Certified
- Must have at least 3+ years of working as a Cloud Engineer focused on AWS services such as EC2, CloudFront, VPC, CloudWatch, RDS, DynamoDB, Systems Manager, Route53, WAF, API Gateway, Elastic beanstalk, ECS, ECR, Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3 bucket, Elastic Search, DocumentDB IAM, etc.
- Must have a strong understanding of EC2 instances, types and deploying applications to the cloud
- Must have a strong understanding of IAM policies, VPC creation, and other security/networking principles
- Must have through experience in doing on prem to AWS cloud workload migration
- Should be comfortable in using AWS and other migrations tools
- Should have experience is working on AWS performance, Cost and Security optimisation
- Should be experience in implementing automated patching and hardening of the systems
- Should be involved in P1 tickets and also guide team wherever needed
- Creating Backups and Managing Disaster Recovery
- Experience in using Infra as a code automation using scripts & tools like CloudFormation and Terraform
- Any exposure towards creating CI/CD pipelines on AWS using CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, etc. is an advantage
- Experience with Docker, Bitbucket, ELK and deploying applications on AWS
- Good understanding of Containerisation technologies like Docker, Kubernetes etc.
- Should be experience in using and configuring cloud monitoring tools and ITSM ticketing tools
- Good exposure to Logging & Monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELF/EFK
Experience and Education
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent.
Work experience
• 4+ years of infrastructure and operations management
Experience at a global scale.
• 4+ years of experience in operations management, including monitoring, configuration management, automation, backup, and recovery.
• Broad experience in the data center, networking, storage, server, Linux, and cloud technologies.
• Broad knowledge of release engineering: build, integration, deployment, and provisioning, including familiarity with different upgrade models.
• Demonstratable experience with executing, or being involved of, a complete end-to-end project lifecycle.
Skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills – both oral and written.
• Skilled at collaborating effectively with both Operations and Engineering teams.
• Process and documentation oriented.
• Attention to details. Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Ability to simplify complex situations and lead calmly through periods of crisis.
• Experience implementing and optimizing operational processes.
• Ability to lead small teams: provide technical direction, prioritize tasks to achieve goals, identify dependencies, report on progress.
Technical Skills
• Strong fluency in Linux environments is a must.
• Good SQL skills.
• Demonstratable scripting/programming skills (bash, python, ruby, or go) and the ability to develop custom tool integrations between multiple systems using their published API’s / CLI’s.
• L3, load balancer, routing, and VPN configuration.
• Kubernetes configuration and management.
• Expertise using version control systems such as Git.
• Configuration and maintenance of database technologies such as Cassandra, MariaDB, Elastic.
• Designing and configuration of open-source monitoring systems such as Nagios, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Designing and configuration of log pipeline technologies such as ELK (Elastic Search Logstash Kibana), FluentD, GROK, rsyslog, Google Stackdriver.
• Using and writing modules for Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, helm, customize.
• Strong understanding of virtualization and containerization technologies such as VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Specific experience with Google Cloud Platform or Amazon EC2 deployments and virtual machines.c
Why you should join us
- You will join the mission to create positive impact on millions of peoples lives
- You get to work on the latest technologies in a culture which encourages experimentation - You get to work with super humans (Psst: Look up these super human1, super human2, super human3, super human4)
- You get to work in an accelerated learning environment
What you will do
- You will provide deep technical expertise to your team in building future ready systems.
- You will help develop a robust roadmap for ensuring operational excellence
- You will setup infrastructure on AWS that will be represented as code
- You will work on several automation projects that provide great developer experience
- You will setup secure, fault tolerant, reliable and performant systems
- You will establish clean and optimised coding standards for your team that are well documented
- You will set up systems in a way that are easy to maintain and provide a great developer experience
- You will actively mentor and participate in knowledge sharing forums
- You will work in an exciting startup environment where you can be ambitious and try new things :)
You should apply if
- You have a strong foundation in Computer Science concepts and programming fundamentals
- You have been working on cloud infrastructure setup, especially on AWS since 8+ years
- You have set up and maintained reliable systems that operate at high scale
- You have experience in hardening and securing cloud infrastructures
- You have a solid understanding of computer networking, network security and CDNs
- Extensive experience in AWS, Kubernetes and optionally Terraform
- Experience in building automation tools for code build and deployment (preferably in JS)
- You understand the hustle of a startup and are good with handling ambiguity
- You are curious, a quick learner and someone who loves to experiment
- You insist on highest standards of quality, maintainability and performance
- You work well in a team to enhance your impact
● Building and managing multiple application environments on AWS using automation tools like Terraform or
Cloudformation etc.
● Deploy applications with zero downtime via automation with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
● Setting up Infrastructure monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana
● Setting up centralised logging using tools such as ELK.
● Containerisation of applications/microservices.
● Ensure application availability to 99.9% with highly available infrastructure.
● Monitoring performance of applications and databases.
● Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cyber security threats.
● Working with software developers to ensure that release cycle and deployment processes are followed.
● Evaluating existing applications and platforms, give recommendations for enhancing performance via gap analysis,
identifying the most practical alternative solutions and assisting with modifications.
Skills -
● Strong knowledge of AWS Managed Services such as EC2, RDS, ECS, ECR, S3, Cloudfront, SES, Redshift, Elastic Cache,
AMQP etc.
● Experience in handling production workloads.
● Experience with Nginx web server.
● Experience with NoSql and Sql Databases such as MongoDB, Postgresql etc.
● Experience with Containerisation of applications/micro services using Docker.
● Understanding of system administration in Linux environments.
● Strong Knowledge of Infrastructure as a Code such as Terraform, Cloudformation etc.
● Strong knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef etc.
● Familiarity with tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, Vercel, JIRA etc.
● Proficiency in scripting languages including Bash, Python etc.
● Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices and agile methodology
● Strong communication and documentation skills.
● An ability to drive to goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail
● Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
● Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills
Location – Pune
Experience - 1.5 to 3 YR
Payroll: Direct with Client
Salary Range: 3 to 5 Lacs (depending on existing)
Role and Responsibility
• Good understanding and Experience on AWS CloudWatch for ES2, Amazon Web Services, and Resources, and other sources.
• Collect and Store logs
• Monitor and Store Logs
• Log Analyze
• Configure Alarm
• Configure Dashboard
• Preparation and following of SOP's, Documentation.
• Good understanding AWS in DevOps.
• Experience with AWS services ( EC2, ECS, CloudWatch, VPC, Networking )
• Experience with a variety of infrastructure, application, and log monitoring tools ~ Prometheus, Grafana,
• Familiarity with Docker, Linux, and Linux security
• Knowledge and experience with container-based architectures like Docker
• Experience on performing troubleshooting on AWS service.
• Experience in configuring services in AWS like EC2, S3, ECS
• Experience with Linux system administration and engineering skills on Cloud infrastructure
• Knowledge of Load Balancers, Firewalls, and network switching components
• Knowledge of Internet-based technologies - TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SMTP & Networking concepts
• Knowledge of security best practices
• Comfortable 24x7 supporting Production environments
• Strong communication skills
- 2+ years of demonstrable experience leading site reliability and performance in large-scale, high-traffic environments
- 2+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer
- Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills geared to getting things done
- Developing themselves and the talent within their charge – fostering and creating opportunity for the team
- Strong understanding of SRE concepts and the DevOps culture. Set the direction and strategy for your team, and help shape the overall SRE program for the company
- Be able to lead complicated technical issues and communicating status updates/RCA with management and customers.
- Own site stability, performance, capacity planning, DevOps recruitment.








