CICS Systems Programmer
We are seeking a CICS Systems programmer with deep experience installing and supporting CICS z/OS and MQ. In this role you will need Parallel Sysplex experience designing, installing, maintaining and supporting the major application subsystems running on z/OS.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the overall management and administration of CICS for z/OS and MQ for z/OS subsystems across multiple Sysplexes and CECS.
- Maintain best practices in systems administration, high availability, metrics and business continuity specifically for CICS for z/OS or MQ for z/OS
- Provides problem resolution support, specific to CICS and MQ on z issues; identifies and resolves systems application problems, coordinates with programming application users to determine symptoms and ensure accurate problem resolution.
- Provides technical direction and education to programmers, analysts and technical support associates.
- Prototypes the new features, functions and strategies of new application subsystems technology.
- Creating the roadmap, processes, best practices, standards and strategies for continuous improvement of monitoring, performance, resiliency, availability, and scalability of CICS and MQ on system z.
- Effective workload balance tuning and performance knowledge
Minimum Requirements:
- Ten years as a CICS Systems Programmer
- Must have expert SMP/E skills and experience
- Must have experience with z/OS Connect
- Seven years with mainframe related tools such as BMC, CICS Interdependency Analyzer, IBM –CICS Performance analyzer, SMPE, ISPF, SMS, SMF.
- Experience with data security with consideration for key dependencies of CICS and MQ on system z.
Preferred Qualifications:
- DB2 for z/OS
- CTG experience
- REXX experience
- Vendor management
- zCEE (z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition)
