Dallas, TXremote

Salary
Posted
Jul 1, 2026
Location
Dallas, TX
Last confirmed open
Jul 20, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

An architect-level SRE role focused on telecom OSS/BSS ecosystems and IBM Mainframe environments. Day-to-day work spans defining reliability standards (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), maintaining and optimizing Telcordia applications, overseeing observability tooling, leading incident and problem management, and driving automation and DevOps practices across hybrid on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Suits a deeply experienced enterprise IT professional with a strong telecom and mainframe background.

Senior level · 15+ years · Remote

Must have (15)
z/OS · 8+ yrsIBM Mainframe · 8+ yrsLinux or SolarisJCLIMSVSAMDB2CICSTIRKSFACSWFASOACSWITCHSplunk, Dynatrace, Instana, Ibm Netcool, Monitoring or AppdynamicsCI/CD

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 70 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 15–160

Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.

What gives you an edge
IMSVSAMCICSJCLz/OSIBM MainframeDB22%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
Linux45%CI/CD45%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).

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 (7)

The posting's title includes 'Architect' but the role's described scope — SRE practices, hands-on mainframe diagnostics, observability tooling, incident management — is consistent with a deep Senior individual contributor rather than a Staff/Principal org-wide authority. Seniority is set to Senior accordingly.

SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role emphasizes SRE automation, CI/CD reliability, and infrastructure-as-code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers) but also involves substantial operational support of existing OSS/BSS and mainframe systems (pointing to 15-1244). 15-1252 was chosen as primary because the JD explicitly calls out designing and implementing architectures, automation, self-healing capabilities, and CI/CD reliability practices.

The 8-year mainframe/architecture experience requirement is stated separately from the 15-year overall requirement; both are captured (8 years on the IBM Mainframe and z/OS skills, 15 years as the role-level minimum).

Observability tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, Instana, IBM NetCool, Grafana, AppDynamics) are listed as a group of 'industry-leading tools such as' — Splunk is used as the primary skill name with the others as alternatives, reflecting that any of these satisfies the requirement.

The job posting lists multiple onsite locations (Dallas TX, Basking Ridge NJ, NC, Tampa FL) but the caller has declared this a fully-remote role; no metro is set.

No compensation, degree requirement, or employment type is stated in the posting.

Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.

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