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Open Systems Technologies ยท 5 days ago

Mainframe CICS Engineer

positionUnited States
timeContract
remoteRemote
seniorityMid Level
money$85/hr - $91/hr

Open Systems Technologies is a financial firm seeking a Mainframe CICS Engineer to join their team. The role involves CICS engineering, system maintenance, and operational functions, requiring strong analytical skills and the ability to work in a large-scale Sysplex environment.

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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

Qualification

CICSCICS performance tuningCICS monitoring toolsSMP/ECICS SMF record structureMainframe Websphere MQCobolAssemblerREXXCICS ExitsZOS facilitiesCICS Configuration ManagerCICS ExplorerCICS REST ServicesApplication programmingAnalytical 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

Open Systems Technologies

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Open Systems Technologies provides smart staffing solutions.
dateFounded in 1990
location
New York, New York, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
http://opensystemstech.com/

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
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