IT IS_AMS_Mainframe_ CICS & MQ Administration

Tata Consultancy Services; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services seeks an IT AMS Mainframe CICS & MQ Administrator with 7–15 years of experience to maintain robust CICS/MQ environments. The role involves working across Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai locations and coordinating problem resolution with vendors.

The candidate will implement SMP/E installs, enforce ACF2 security, analyze SMF data, and support storage growth with CICS, ensuring high availability and performance. Strong diagnostics and vendor liaison skills are required.

Qualifications

• 7–15 years of experience in mainframe storage/admin roles.
• Proficient with CICS, MQ, and related mainframe tools.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and administer CICS/MQ environments across locations.
• Troubleshoot and drive root-cause analysis for incidents.
• Collaborate with vendors for problem resolution and optimization.

Skills

SMP/E knowledge

ACF2 security

SMF data analysis

Problem determination

CICS MRO concepts (TOR/AOR)

Trace setup

CICS storage management

Dump creation & analysis

RDO basics

Web services in CICS

Tivoli/Omegamon

Intertest/Symdump

SDS-CAFC

Trillium/Code1

File-aid

Splunk dashboards

Tools

Broadcom ACF2 security

Tivoli/Omegamon

Job description

ONLY CANDIDATES WITH 7 TO 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND PROFICIENT WITH MAINFRAME STORAGE ADMIN FROM BANGLORE, CHENNAI, MUMBAI LOCATIONS NEED TO APPLY

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What we are looking for

Role: IT IS_AMS_Mainframe_ CICS & MQ Administration

Experience Range: 7 - 15 Years

Must Have:

• IBM/vendor support – familiar with IBM and other vendors web sites: Open problem cases, ask questions, prepare and send dumps.
• SMP/E - in depth knowledge to do install work on CICS and any associated products
• Security - in depth knowledge of ACF2 (must be able to install security on CICS and associated products and create ACF2 security rules as they pertain to CICS)
• SMF - moderate skill set required to gather and manipulate SMF data (specifically the CICS 110 records)
• Problem determination skills - ability to diagnose problem and determine root cause and remediation

Good to Have:

• Understanding of a CICS MRO environment (TOR and AOR configuration)
• Set traces (Aux and GTF) - ability to set traces to aid vendors in problem management and determination.
• CICS shutdown statistics - be able to produce and interpret shutdown stats to aid in problem determination and growth projections.
• Understanding of the CICS dynamic storage areas and how to manipulate for short on storage situations or to accommodate future growth of applications.
• Create both transaction and system dumps (and port to vendors for analysis)
• RDO (resource definition online) - must be able to create any resource needed on CICS (e.g transactions, programs, files, transient data queue, LSR groups, etc)
• Web Services - creating and supporting of web services within CICS
• Broadcom ACF2 security - ability to install CICS security requirements, maintain ACF2 security within CICS and on all CICS resources
• Tivoli/Omegamon products (this is our monitoring software for CICS, z/OS, MQ, IIB, DB2 and the web portal (on windows) - our CICS admin is responsible for installing and maintaining all these monitoring tools.)
• Broadcom Intertest/Symdump - product to debug CICS programs, product to format transaction dumps - install and maintain (and aid developers with questions and use)
• SDS - CAFC (CICS application file control) - install product and use for control of files, application lists and group lists. Assist Operators when needed on use and problem determination if applications are failing.
• Trillium and Code1 software - aid in installation and day to day management of software
• Compuware products specifically File-aid - proficient at manipulation of files through file-aid software
• Splunk - proficient at creating (modifying) Splunk reports (dashboards) to report on All CICS metrics (e.g CPU consumption, storage consumption, transaction volume, response times, wait times, etc)