Mainframe CICS & MQ Administrator

📍 Location: Remote

Key Responsibilities & Requirements

• Hands-on experience in IBM MQ installation, upgrades, maintenance, configuration, and troubleshooting.

• Strong expertise in MQ administration, including monitoring, alert setup, and message flow management using tools such as MQ Explorer, Omegamon, and TEPS.

• Ability to design and implement MQ architecture patterns based on application requirements.

• Experience in defining and managing MQ objects such as queues, channels, topics, and process definitions.

• Proficiency in using MQ utilities for queue management activities (backup, message handling, cleanup, etc.).

• Knowledge of MQ clustering, queue sharing, and queue manager setup, migration, and health monitoring.

• Experience in performance monitoring and tuning, including CPU usage analysis using SMF statistics.

• Strong understanding of integration with CICS, DB2, IMS, and third-party systems.

CICS Administration

• Experience with CICS TS v5.x / v6.x and CICSPlex, including installation, upgrades, patching, configuration, and RSU maintenance.

• Knowledge of CICS MRO environments and system architecture.

• Ability to configure and manage CICS resources (RDO) such as transactions, programs, files, and queues.

• Experience in troubleshooting using traces (Aux, GTF) and analyzing CICS shutdown statistics.

• Understanding of CICS storage management and performance tuning.

• Experience in generating and analyzing system and transaction dumps.

• Exposure to CICS web services development and support.

Tools & Supporting Technologies

• Experience with tools such as Tivoli/Omegamon, Broadcom Intertest/Symdump, FileAid, Splunk.

• Knowledge of z/OS Connect and mainframe messaging/connectivity environments.

• Familiarity with SDS / CAFC for file and application control.

Additional Skills (Nice to Have)

• Knowledge of MQSeries / MQ Clients on distributed platforms.

• Basic understanding of z/OS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF, COBOL.

Other Requirements

• Experience in vendor coordination, incident management, and escalations.

• Ability to support 24x7 on-call operations as required.

• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.