Sr Mainframe CICS Engineer

Overview

On Site
$DOE
Full Time
Part Time
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 06 Month(s)

Skills

COBOL
Mainframe
CICS
CICSPlex
CICS SMF
Websphere MQ

Job Details

Job Title: Sr Mainframe CICS Engineer

Industry: Financial

Location: Remote

Mode of Interview: Video

Contract: 6+ Months

Mainframe CICS Engineer Mainframe CICS Engineer (not a CICS application developer rather an engineer who does CICS software installs, management etc

(The manager also has oversight for the mainframe MQ team so candidates with MQ experience would be of added interest).

Department Overview

Enterprise Technology & Services (ETS) delivers shared technology services for Client supporting all business applications and end users. ETS provides capabilities for all stages of Client's software development lifecycle, enabling productive coding, functional and integration testing, application releases, and ongoing monitoring and support for over 3,000 production applications. ETS also delivers all workplace technologies (desktop, mobile, voice, video, productivity, intranet/internet) in integrated configurations that boost the personal productivity of employees. Application and end user functions are delivered on a scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure composed of seamlessly integrated datacenter, network, compute, cloud, storage, and database functions.

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.

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