Integration/DevOps Engineer (Data/App Engineer)

Job Description: Integration/DevOps Engineer (Data/App Engineer) Duration: 9-12 months Work Location: Remote (some onsite in Jefferson City, MO. No travel reimbursement, so Missouri or Midwest candidates are preferred) Note: Mainframe developers who have moved into DevOps fit this role well Job Description: Sets up and runs the delivery pipeline (Azure DevOps CI/CD, environments, releases) and the integrations between mainframe, data warehouse and .NET components. Part-time allocation peaks during build, SIT and cutover. Responsibilities Stand up Azure DevOps boards, repos, branching and CI/CD pipelines for SQL/SSIS, .NET and database deployments. Build and maintain integrations and file transfers between DB2 z/OS/mainframe batch and the target platform (FTP/SFTP, MQ, APIs, scheduler hooks). Manage environment promotion (Dev, Test, UAT, Prod), release packaging, rollback and recovery procedures. Automate deployment validation, smoke tests and job-scheduling checks. Support performance and restart/recovery testing; lead technical cutover steps. Keep ADO traceability current: requirements to code to test to release. Required (State minimums) 7+ yrs full SDLC application development, with 7+ yrs QA/release testing 7+ yrs SQL, batch processing, and system/unit testing Azure DevOps (ADO) pipelines, repos and release management (hands-on) COBOL, JCL and DB2 z/OS working experience, including mainframe batch and job streams (State App Dev matrix) C# .NET build and deployment experience (State matrix) Scripting: PowerShell and/or Python; job schedulers (Control-M, CA7 or similar) Preferred Mainframe DevOps tooling (Endevor, ISPW, Changeman, Git for mainframe) Public sector release governance and change management (ITIL) Azure cloud infrastructure