Mainframe CICS Systems Engineer. Remote EAST COAST ONLY.
Required experience:
A minimum of ten years working as a CICS Systems Programmer / Engineer
Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.
Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrade and maintenance
In depth knowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics for tuning CICS regions
Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc.
Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning.
Experienced with the CICS monitoring tools Sysview.
Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers.
Experience with Mainframe WebSphere MQ
On call support
Interview Process: 1 video interview.
Job Description:
Overview: We deliver shared technology services and support all business applications and end users. Our team provides capabilities for all stages of software development lifecycle, enabling productive coding, functional and integration testing, application releases, and ongoing monitoring and support for over hundreds of production applications. We ensure 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.
Our mainframe team is a technology enabler for the business by providing a strong, resilient, and stable platform to host and enable business innovation/growth in our lines of business and global locations. The team consists of experienced administration, operations and engineering staff required to support the platform. The mainframe engineers work with the latest hardware and software technologies. The IBM z platform and the mainframe disk and tape technologies are frequently refreshed across our datacenters.
The Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer is responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system and software maintenance, and CICS related operation functions. In order to be considered for this role you must be comfortable working with CICS (and MQ) in an enterprise scale Sysplex and CICSPlex environment. The CICS engineer must have strong analytical, organizational and communication skills, as well as in-depth knowledge in CICS performance & tuning, debugging and dump analysis.
