Overseas Contractor

Keyskills: Dynatrace, Grafana, Jenkins, Splunk Location: UK Sheffield Mode: fte/subcon Key Responsibilities * 1Strategic Technical Leadership Governance * Platform Vision Define the longterm roadmap for IBM Z and IBM I ensuring infrastructure remains resilient and aligned with business growth * Lifecycle Management Oversee the endtoend lifecycle of core systems ensuring internal engineering principles are applied from initial build to daytoday operations * Technical Authority Serve as the primary advisor to the CTOi bridging the gap between platform complexities and executive business goals * Operational Excellence Lead the continuous improvement of operational resiliency Architect and govern highavailability frameworks including Parallel Sysplex GDPS Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex for IBM Z and PowerHA clusters DB2 Mirror for IBM I * Proactive Risk Mitigation Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks through deepdive system health checks vulnerability assessments and predictive performance modelling * Disaster Recovery DR Strategy Design and test robust DR strategies eg Cyber Vault Metro Mirror to ensure nearzero RTORPO for missioncritical workloads * Incident PostMortems Lead the rootcause analysis RCA for major system incidents implementing architectural changes to prevent recurrence * 3Strategic Adoption of Open Telemetry OTel * Standardization Design and implement Open Telemetry collectors and instrumentation patterns specifically tailored for IBM Z and IBM I workloads * FullStack Integration Enable seamless distributed tracing across hybrid paths from mobile frontends through middleware zCEE CICS MQ to DB2 and back * Metric Modernization Convert legacy SMF records and system logs into OTelcompliant metrics and traces to provide a unified single pane of glass view * Performance Engineering Collaborate with DevOps teams to build realtime dashboards that correlate IBM Z and IBM I telemetry with distributed cloud services * 4Everything as Code Strategy IaC CaC PaC * Infrastructure as Code IaC Drive the transition to softwaredefined infrastructure using Terraform or zOS Cloud Broker for containerized workload * Configuration as Code CaC Manage OS parameters and middleware zCEE CICS DB2 MQ via versioncontrolledYAMLJSON files orchestrated through zOSMF and Ansible * Policy as Code PaC Programmatically enforce security audit and compliance policies eg RACF to ensure automated governance across the hybrid stack * 5Security QuantumSafe FutureProofing * QuantumSafe Transition Lead the migration to QuantumSafe Cryptography QSC protecting data against future quantum threats using latticebased algorithms * CryptoAgility Architect systems that allow for rapid updates to cryptographic providers without disrupting core business logic * Pervasive Encryption Oversee implementation of IBM Z Pervasive Encryption to ensure 100 data protection * GenAI Agentic AI Lead the integration of Generative AI eg Watsonx Code Assistant for code refactoring and deploy Agentic AI autonomous agents for intelligent system operations * Hybrid Cloud Strategy Optimize workload placement using Red Hat OpenShift across onpremises and public cloud environments Technical Expertise Tooling Mastery 1Core Platforms Engineering Depth * IBM Z Deeplevel expertise in zOS parallel sysplex GDPS WLM CF structures USS and RMFSMF performance analysis * IBM I Comprehensive mastery of IBM I objects Integrated File System IFS and PowerHA clusters 2OpenTelemetry Observability Stack * OTel Specification Deep understanding of the Open Telemetry Protocol OTLP including the design and configuration of OTel Collectors receivers processors and exporters * Distributed Tracing Experience with context propagation W3C Trace Context to link mainframe transactions to distributed microservices * Backend Integration Ability to export telemetry to industrystandard backends such as IBM Instana Splunk Dynatrace Elastic or GrafanaPrometheus * Middleware Mastery Handson experience with zCEE CICS DB2 and MQ You should understand how to enable trace propagation across these subsystems using OTelcompatible headers 3QuantumSafe Encryption Modern Security * PQC PostQuantum Cryptography Knowledge of implementing QuantumSafe APIs and algorithms like CrystalsKyber available on the IBM z16 and modern Power systems * Pervasive Encryption Expertlevel ability to implement Dataset and File System encryption with zero impact on application logic * Zero Trust Architecture Architecting Least Privilege access systems and ensuring endtoend encryption of data using ATTLS or TLS 13 4Modern Tooling Open Platform Integration * DevOps Orchestration Mastery of GitHub ActionsEnterprise Jenkins and Ansible for crossplatform CICD #J-18808-Ljbffr