MainframeCICSEngineer

Role: Mainframe CICS Engineer

Location: New York, NY 10036 / Open to Remote Candidates

Experience: 8+

Description:

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.