Mainframe CICS Engineer

Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer/Engineer The CICS engineer will be 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. Strong analytical, organizational and communication skills, as well as in‑depth knowledge in CICS performance & tuning, debugging and dump analysis, are required. On‑call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the CICS environment and resolve issues.

Pay Range $70.00/hr - $75.00/hr

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 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

Information Technology

Industries

Financial Services, Banking, and Insurance

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