Integration/DevOps Engineer (Data/App Engineer - 26-16454

Title: Integration/DevOps Engineer (Data/App Engineer)
Duration: 9-12 Months (No benefits)
Location: Remote (some onsite in Jefferson City, MO)

Job Summary:
Sets up and runs the delivery pipeline (Azure DevOps CI/CD, environments, releases) and the integrations between mainframe, data warehouse, and .NET components. Mainframe developers who have moved into DevOps are a good fit for this role.

Responsibilities:

1. Stand up Azure DevOps boards, repos, branching, and CI/CD pipelines for SQL/SSIS, .NET, and database deployments.
2. Build and maintain integrations and file transfers between DB2 z/OS/mainframe batch and the target platform (FTP/SFTP, MQ, APIs, scheduler hooks).
3. Manage environment promotion (Dev, Test, UAT, Prod), release packaging, and rollback and recovery procedures.
4. Automate deployment validation, smoke tests, and job-scheduling checks.
5. Support performance and restart/recovery testing; lead technical cutover steps.
6. Keep Azure DevOps traceability current: requirements to code to test to release.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of full SDLC application development, with 7+ years of QA/release testing.
• 7+ years of SQL, batch processing, and system/unit testing.
• Hands-on Azure DevOps (ADO) pipelines, repos, and release management.
• Working experience with COBOL, JCL, and DB2 z/OS, including mainframe batch and job streams.
• C# .NET build and deployment experience.
• Scripting in PowerShell and/or Python; job schedulers (Control-M, CA7, or similar).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Mainframe DevOps tooling (Endevor, ISPW, Changeman, Git for mainframe).
• Public sector release governance and change management (ITIL).
• Azure cloud infrastructure.