Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)
No Travel Required
Able to Provide Sponsorship

Skills

Mainframe
CICS
MQ
zOS
WebSphere

Job Details

Job Title: Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin
Work Model: Onsite (5 days a week) OR Open to relocation
Locations (in order of preference):
1) San Antonio 2) Austin 3) Houston 4) Dallas

Years of Experience:
Minimum 10+ years of experience in CICS/MQ on zOS administration
Top Required Skills:
- CICS product installation
- MQ product installation
- CICS/MQ upgrades
Job Description/ Responsibilities:
CICS Administrator
- Excellent skills on CICS administration which include CICS and its product administration
- Experience in CICS version upgrades/migration
- Applying patches to CICS software, Hostbridge
- CICS ISVs upgrades and maintenance
- Resource definition Online and batch mode
- CICS region build
- Knowledge on CICSPlex concepts (mandatory)
- Configuration of CICS initialization parameters
- Troubleshooting and resolving system related abends and issues
- Identifying patches that need to be installed, and having them installed
- Security administration for CICS
- Performance monitoring and tuning
- CICS intercommunication setup and maintenance
- 24*7 support
- Assist in application team on CICS specific issues
MQ on z/OS Administrator
- Expericne in MQ product upgrades and maintenance
- Defining and Monitoring MQ objects
- MQ region build
- Knowledge on MQ sharing concepts (mandatory)
- Operating with CICS adapter control functions to initiate and manage connections between WebSphere MQ and CICS
- Managing Websphere MQ resources(BSDS, Pagesets, buffer pools, logs)

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