Mainframe CICS Engineer

Open Systems Technologies; Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial firm is seeking a Mainframe CICS Engineer to join their remote team during EST hours. This role involves CICS engineering, system maintenance, and operational support in a 24x7 Sysplex environment. Key responsibilities include problem determination and performance tuning, along with collaboration with developers. Candidates must have strong knowledge of CICS and SMP/E, alongside excellent communication skills. The expected pay is between $85-91/hr.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrades, and maintenance.
• Ability to perform CICS performance tuning and dump analysis.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all phases of CICS engineering and maintenance.
• Provide on-call support for the CICS environment.
• Interface with application developers and operations teams.

Skills

Knowledge of SMP/E

CICS performance tuning

Cobol knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Experience with Mainframe Websphere MQ

Problem determination skills

Tools

CICS Performance Analyzer

Sysview for CICS

Job description

Overview

A financial firm is looking for a Mainframe CICS Engineer to join their team. This role is remote (EST hours). Pay: $85-91/hr. No visa sponsorship, must be a US Citizen or GC Holder.

Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

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

Preferred

• 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