Mainframe CICS Engineer

Position: Mainframe CICS Engineer

Location: New York, NY (Remote)

Duration: 12 months

Must have financial exp

Description:

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.