Mainframe CICS Engineer
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Mainframe CICS Engineer overseeing CICS engineering and system maintenance in 24x7 environments. Collaborating with application developers and operations teams while handling on-call support.
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.
- On-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the CICS environment and to resolve issues.
Requirements:
- 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


















