Apply: Mainframe IMS & Automation Specialists X3

Reference: BH-185047
Contract Detail
Locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide
Rate: Up to $1400/day + super (depending on skills & niche experience)
Hybrid Working | Major Transformation Program | Multiple Vacancies


A large enterprise organisation is expanding its Mainframe team and has multiple long-term contract opportunities across IMS Database, IMS System Programming, and Mainframe Automation.

These roles support a major multi-year transformation program and require strong mainframe experience, excellent troubleshooting capability, and the ability to work in complex, high-availability environments.

Available Roles

1. IMS Database Analyst Hands-on database operations and support, including:
  • Performance tuning, capacity planning, IMS monitoring
  • HALDB, cloning, schema changes
  • Backup & recovery, DR testing
  • Production incident/problem/change management

2. IMS System Programmer Systems-level engineering and platform management:
  • IMS subsystem design, upgrades, patching
  • IMS parameters, IMS exits, integration with z/OS
  • DR strategy and execution
  • Performance tuning and operational automation

3. Mainframe Automation Specialist Automation engineering across mainframe operations:
  • MVS, CA SOLVE, SOLVE NetMaster, SSI
  • IBM System Automation
  • Event automation, monitoring, JCL scripting
  • Improving reliability, stability and reducing manual tasks

What You’ll Do
  • Support, optimise, and enhance a large enterprise IMS and mainframe environment
  • Drive performance tuning, monitoring, and problem resolution for business-critical systems
  • Deliver complex changes, upgrades, and production support
  • Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations
  • Contribute to automation uplift, documentation, and continuous improvement
  • Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and vendor teams
What We’re Looking For
  • 5+ years’ experience in Mainframe / z/OS environments
  • Strong IMS Database or IMS Systems or Mainframe Automation skills (depending on the role)
  • Experience in troubleshooting, performance tuning, and high-availability environments
  • Background supporting critical production systems
  • Ability to explain technical concepts clearly and work with cross-functional teams
  • Experience across incident, change, and problem management
  • Flexibility for on-call and out-of-hours support when required
Desirable:
  • BMC IMS tools experience
  • JCL scripting
  • Disaster Recovery experience
  • Exposure to large-scale transformation or upgrade programs

How to Apply
If you have strong IMS, Mainframe Systems, or Mainframe Automation experience and are looking for your next long-term contract, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now with your updated CV.
Company Background:

Ethos BeathChapman (EBC) is a global group of executive recruitment experts in Australia, Asia and EMEA, with a broader network beyond. We connect exceptional people to exceptional companies.

EBC’s mid-sized agility and solutions-focused approach enables us to flex where traditional recruitment agencies have failed, and scale beyond the reach of boutiques. Our multidisciplinary expertise covers corporate and specialised functions across Finance, Technology, Commerce and Government recruitment markets, among others.

Established 2005 in Sydney, EBC today has six offices worldwide in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands and the UK. Part of the Nikkei-listed Will Group, Inc, we own Quay Appointments and our staffing and managed solutions specialists, CONNECT.

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