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Soho Square Solutions ยท 23 hours ago

Mainframe CICS Engineer

Soho Square Solutions is seeking a Mainframe CICS Engineer responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system and software maintenance, and operational functions. The role requires strong analytical and communication skills, as well as in-depth knowledge of CICS performance, tuning, and debugging in a large scale Sysplex environment.

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Responsibilities

Responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system and software maintenance, and CICS related operational functions
Comfortable working with CICS in a 24x7 large scale Sysplex and CICSPlex environment
Interface with application developers and operations teams
Perform problem determination, dump analysis, and performance tuning
Provide on-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours to support the CICS environment and resolve issues

Qualification

CICS performance tuningCICS debuggingCICSPlex implementationSMP/E maintenanceCICS monitoring toolsCobol knowledgeMainframe Websphere MQAssembler codingREXX codingCICS Exits knowledgeWeb application supportZOS facilities understandingCICS Configuration ManagerCICS Explorer knowledgeCICS REST Services understandingApplication programming experienceCommunication 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

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

H1B Sponsorship

Soho Square Solutions has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2022 (5)
2021 (2)
2020 (3)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage

Leadership Team

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Vijay Veerachandran
Managing Partner
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