Mainframe security architect / RACF Architect Consultant -Remote
Zealogics.com · Atlanta, GA
$60–$65/hrfrom the description
Jul 22, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior mainframe security role centered on architecting and delivering enterprise-scale RACF and z/OS UNIX System Services (USS) security solutions. Day-to-day work spans assessing current environments, producing target-state designs, guiding engineering teams through implementation, and building automation and reporting tooling. The position suits a deeply experienced mainframe security professional comfortable operating as a subject-matter expert across authentication, authorization, encryption, and privileged access controls.
Senior level · 12+ years
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
We read this from the posting text with AI. Skim the description below before ruling yourself out.
How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $132,021 (middle half $99,961–$167,095). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The rate range of $60–$65 is stated without a period qualifier; given the context of a contract-style rate and the magnitude of the numbers, this is most likely an hourly rate — but the posting does not explicitly say 'per hour', so the period is marked Unspecified per extraction rules.
The role is titled 'mainframe security architect or senior engineer' in the requirements text, not the job title itself; advertised seniority is inferred as Senior from that framing.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role's primary day-to-day work is designing and architecting RACF/USS security solutions (security analysis, architecture, and controls), which aligns with 15-1212 Information Security Analysts. However, the heavy hands-on mainframe engineering and automation development component could also support 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other), as mainframe security architects are not cleanly described by any single SOC code.
DB2 and Sybase are listed together as examples of 'database technologies and query tools'; they are captured as alternatives of one another since the posting treats them interchangeably as examples of the same requirement.
CICS appears only in the broad z/OS infrastructure disciplines narrative and in the collaboration context ('CICS/MQ teams'), not as a standalone gated requirement; marked preferred accordingly.
Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint) are listed under the hard requirements section and are marked required, though they are likely threshold-level expectations rather than differentiating criteria.
Read the full posting
The employer publishes the full description on their own site — read it there ↗. Or sign in to read it here — it's free, and it also lets you track this application.