The Mainframe CICS Engineer manages CICS engineering, maintenance, and operational functions in a large-scale Sysplex environment, providing on-call support and ensuring performance tuning and debugging.
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. 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 - Excellent oral/written communication skills 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.
Rate range - $60-$65
Rate range - $60-$65
Top Skills
Assembler
Cics
Cics Configuration Manager
Cics Performance Analyzer
Cics Rest Services
Cics Ts V6.X
Cobol
Mainframe Websphere Mq
Rexx
Smp/E
Sysview For Cics
Zos
Zealogics LLC Bridgewater, New Jersey, USA Office
1200 US Highway 22, Bridgewater, NJ, United States, 08807
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