CICS Engineer

TSR Consulting; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm is seeking a Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer/Engineer located in Alpharetta, GA. This role is essential for all phases of CICS engineering and operations, requiring strong analytical and communication skills. The ideal candidate must manage a 24x7 CICS environment, providing support and maintenance as needed. Applicants should have in-depth knowledge of CICS performance tuning and experience interfacing with developers and operations teams while working in a large-scale Sysplex environment.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• In-depth knowledge in CICS performance & tuning, debugging and dump analysis.
• Must be comfortable working in a 24x7 large scale Sysplex and CICSPlex environment.
• Experience with Mainframe WebSphere MQ and COBOL/REXX coding.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system and software maintenance.
• Interface with application developers and operations teams.
• Provide on-call support and maintenance outside normal working hours.
• Analyze performance and tune CICS regions to optimize system throughput.

Skills

Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrades and maintenance

Knowledge of all CICS parameters controlling performance in a CICSPlex

Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization

Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning

Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers

Understanding of CICS REST Services

Experience with Mainframe Websphere MQ

Web application support in a CICS TS V6.x environment

Tools

SMP/E

CICS parameters tuning

CICS SMF

CICSPlex SM

Sysview for CICS

Cobol

WebSphere MQ

Assembler

REXX

CICS Exits

CICS REST Services

zOS facilities

CICS Configuration Manager

CICS Explorer

Job description

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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
• 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

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Investment Banking

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