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Soho Square Solutions · 2 days ago

CICS Engineer

United States

Contract

Remote

Entry, Mid Level

1+ years exp

Soho Square Solutions is seeking a CICS Engineer to manage all phases of CICS engineering and maintenance. The role involves working in a large scale Sysplex environment, providing on-call support, and collaborating with application developers and operations teams.

Big DataBlockchainFinancial ServicesProject Management

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

The CICS Systems 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

Qualification

CICS performance tuningCICSPlex implementationCICS monitoring toolsSMP/E knowledgeCobol knowledgeMainframe Websphere MQAnalytical skillsOrganizational skillsCommunication 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

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

Company

Soho Square Solutions

Soho Square Solutions expertise in financial services, enterprise risk, information security, project management, big data and blockchain.

Founded in 2008

New York, New York, USA

201-500 employees

http://www.sohosquaresolutions.com

H1B Sponsorship

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