Mainframe CICS Engineer

New York, NY, US • Posted 21 hours ago • Updated 21 hours ago

Contract W2

Travel Required

On-site

$60 - $70/hr

Learn Beyond Consulting LLC

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Skills

CICS
COBOL
Rexx
z/OS
VSAM
SMP/E
Mainframe
SMF

Summary

Role: Mainframe CICS Engineer
Location: NYC/NY
9 months to hire

Mainframe CICS Engineer
The Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer/Engineer is responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system and software maintenance, and CICS related operational functions. The candidate must be comfortable working with CICS in a 24x7 large scale Sysplex and CICSPlex environment and must be able to interface with application developers and operations teams. The CICS engineer should have strong analytical, organizational and communication skills, as well as in-depth knowledge in CICS performance & tuning, debugging and dump analysis. On-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the CICS environment and to resolve issues.

Skills Required:
Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrades and maintenance
Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.
Knowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics necessary to tune CICS regions
Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc.
Knowledge of the CICS resource definitions, including those that pertain to CICS region performance
Experienced with the CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICS.
Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning
Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers
Experience with Mainframe Websphere MQ
Excellent oral/written communication skills

Skills desired:
Assembler, COBOL and REXX coding and knowledge of CICS Exits
Web application support in a CICS TS V6.x environment
Understanding of zOS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, RLS, Coupling Facility
Utilization of CICS Configuration Manager
Working knowledge of zOS & CICS Explorer
Understanding of CICS REST Services
Prior Application programming experience a plus.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id: 91126603
Position Id: 8890165
Posted 21 hours ago

Company Info

About Learn Beyond Consulting LLC

Our company was established with primary goal to deliver quality and cost effective IT consultancy and support to everyone who requires them.

Learn Beyond Consulting is a global consulting powerhouse. We are a team of high-skilled professionals who care about the level of information technology integration in modern business. As a team collectively We have more than 50 years of experience in IT industry..

We achieved our success because of how successfully we integrate with our clients. One complaint many people have about consultants is that they can be disruptive. Employees fear outside consultants coming in and destroying the workflow. Our clients face no such issues.

We believe in partnering, through close association with our clients to first understand and define what is truly needed, and then jointly work to create complete, customized business solutions tailored to their unique requirements.

Our methodology includes a very advanced approach to performance management ensuring the desired results are defined in clear measurable terms.

Our Vision is To provide Continuous Value Addition to our Clients by leveraging the Latest and most Innovative Technologies by Delivering Excellent Business Solutions.

We understand that each client has his own unique needs, definition of value, which must be sustained over a period of time as conditions and priorities change

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