CICS Engineer, SMP/E, CICSPlex, CICSSMF, Sysview, Cobol, Websphere MQ 12+ Mths Contย REMOTEย ย
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PC - 3515
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Level 5 - ( 15+ yrs of exp)
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ROLE : MAINFRAMEย CICS Engineer,ย SMP/E,ย CICSPlex SM,ย CICSSMF, Sysview,ย tuning, Cobol,ย Websphere MQ 12+ Mths Contย REMOTE
Loc: NYC / (100% REMOTE is Fine)ย
Dur: 12+ Months Cont
OPEN TO REMOTE EMPLOYEE
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Mainframe CICS Engineerย
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.
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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.
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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.
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Skills Required:
- Knowledge of SMP/Eย (System Modification Program/Extended for IBM Z/OS), 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
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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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