Full-Time Senior Mainframe Migration Engineer
Devoteam is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Mainframe Migration Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Lisboa, Portugal based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Devoteam Portugal is seeking experienced Mainframe Migration Specialists for a nearshore team supporting a major French client's mainframe exit initiative. This project involves migrating legacy applications and databases from mainframe to a distributed infrastructure, ensuring security, scalability, and operational efficiency.
Selected professionals will collaborate closely with technical architects, database specialists, and infrastructure teams to facilitate a smooth migration while preserving business continuity and service performance.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and execute legacy system migrations from mainframe to distributed infrastructure.
- Ensure security compliance, focusing on RACF security policies.
- Drive DBMS migration, specifically DB2 to PostgreSQL.
- Implement and optimize middleware technologies and automation tools, including OPCon scheduler.
- Define and refine deployment strategies, parallelization (forking), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop and validate the technical architecture, encompassing service levels and disaster recovery planning (PRA).
- Support both pilot and execution phases, ensuring a structured migration approach.
Minimum Requirements:
- Minimum 4 years of experience in mainframe migration and modernization.
- Strong knowledge of RACF security and legacy system security policies.
- Proven expertise in DBMS migration, especially DB2 to PostgreSQL.
- Hands-on experience with middleware technologies and automation tools (OPCon scheduler is a plus).
- Deep understanding of technical architecture, service level planning, and PRA.
- Advanced knowledge of deployment strategies, parallelization (forking), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, delivering results within strict deadlines.
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience in mainframe-to-distributed infrastructure migrations.
- Cloud migration experience (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Expertise in modernizing legacy applications.