Leidos is seeking a Mainframe Systems Analyst to support a mainframe environment for government agency, with expertise in coordinating, executing, and reporting on backup and disaster recovery activities for a large multi-agency health care claims processing environment including : Monitor Disaster Recovery Back-ups using DFHSM, DR/VFI, storage monitoring, file transfer support, Batch Scheduling and Monitoring using TWS, Abend Resolution, JCL Updates, Support Content Management (CA-View/Deliver, Systemware JHS) systems, Application Release Deployment and Installations.
Daily Operational Tasks include:
- Support Medicare health claims processing activities in shared mainframe environment
- Perform daily backups of various mainframe regions
- Monitors and controls job processing flows using scheduling tools (TWS and TDWC) in the z/OS, z/Linux, and UNIX environments
- Serve as primary point of contact for researching making to corrections to mainframe backup jobs
- Gather information from various mainframe systems to identify and address health claims processing data backup and data retention issues
- Provide regular reporting on production and UAT processing issues
- Ensure that production and testing mainframe software release packages are installed correctly and properly added to the normal backup schedule
- Create and update dashboards to track the processing of various mainframe job cycles detailing successful and unsuccessful backups
- Perform validation after various mainframe backup jobs complete
- Coordinate various application and batch management daily tasks
- Create internal and external daily reports to monitor the status of mainframe backup and DR jobs
- Review mainframe batch jobs and claims processing for errors and help coordinate any corrections and necessary re-runs
- Coordinate with mainframe users to schedule and execute annual DR activities
- Review various mainframe support tickets and work with vendors, senior technical resources, and potential customers to resolve issues
- Potential ability to work second and third (overnight) shift work supporting batch processing and monitoring
- Plan with MACs and implement annual disaster recovery exercise and report result to various government agencies.
Basic Qualifications
- Typically requires a Bachelor's with 4+ years of experience. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- 5+ years supporting mainframe health claims processing and backups for the federal government sector
- Must have 5 years of mainframe support, including knowledge of JCL coding and Mainframe Application support including : Batch scheduling and tools (IWS), Content management support and tools (CA View/Deliver, Systemware JHS).
- Experience analyzing government mainframe systems
- Experience monitoring and accessing claims jobs managing z/OS and z/VM environments
- Must be proficient with TSO/ISPF Editor, IBM Utilities
- Must know and be able to proficiently use TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler) and TDWC (Tivoli Dynamic Workload Console) automation tools
- Experience monitoring and accessing claims jobs managing z/OS and z/VM environments
- Able to utilize Incident ticket system to open, resolve, close tickets and Service Requests
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills including the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
- Ability to use strong industry knowledge to relate to customer needs and dissolve customer concerns and a high level of focus and attention to detail.
- Strong work ethic with good time management with the ability to work with diverse teams and lead meetings
- Strong organizational, interpersonal and analytical skills
- Must be able to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance and reside in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications
- Applicants have 5 years’ experience with mainframe backup SW such as CA Disk, IBM DFDHS, DR/ VRS.
- Applicants have 5 years’ experience supporting CMS and the Fee For Service applications.
- Applicants have 5 years of experience with IWS.
All candidates supporting the CMS programs must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years prior in order to be considered.
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Original Posting:January 15, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
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