Senior Mainframe CICS System Administrator (MQ)

Remote • Posted 3 hours ago • Updated 3 hours ago
Contract Independent
Contract W2
12 Months
No Travel Required
Remote
Depends on Experience
Fitment

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Job Details

Skills

  • CICSPlex SM
  • JCL
  • RACF
  • VSAM
  • CICS
  • z/OS
  • Mainframe
  • IBM

Summary

Hi,
Greetings from Modern Agile Technologies.

Title: Remote Senior Mainframe CICS System Administrator (MQ)
Location: REMOTE 
Duration: 12+ Months Contract

 

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Mainframe CICS System Administrator to administer, support, and optimize enterprise IBM z/OS mainframe environments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing CICS Transaction Serverz/OS systems programmingCICSPlex SMJCLRACFVSAM, and production support in mission-critical environments. This role requires strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, system maintenance, and automation experience supporting large-scale banking, insurance, or utility organizations.


Required Skills

  • 15+ years of experience administering IBM Mainframe environments.
  • Strong hands-on experience with IBM CICS Transaction Server (TS 5.3/5.5/5.6).
  • Extensive knowledge of z/OSMVSJES2, and UNIX System Services (USS).
  • Experience creating and maintaining CICS RegionsCSD, and resource definitions using CEDACEMT, and CICS Explorer.
  • Hands-on experience with CICSPlex SM administration and workload management.
  • Strong knowledge of JCL, PROC libraries, GDGs, SORT utilities, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, and IEFBR14.
  • Experience with TSO/ISPFSDSFIOFFile-AIDSPUFI, and QMF.
  • Strong knowledge of VSAM (KSDS, ESDS, RRDS), SMS, DFSMS, DFHSM, zFS, and storage management.
  • Experience administering RACF security, started task IDs, dataset security, and keyring management.
  • Experience with SMP/E, including PTF, APAR, RSU installation, and maintenance.
  • Experience supporting DB2IMS, and IBM MQ integrated CICS environments.
  • Knowledge of CA7/CA Workload Automation or Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS).
  • Experience using monitoring tools such as OMEGAMONRMFSMFNetView, and IBM Health Checker.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills for CICS regions, JCL failures, storage issues, and system performance.
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  • Dice Id: 91131370
  • Position Id: 9070432
  • Posted 3 hours ago
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