Mainframe CICS Engineer jobs in United States
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Apolis · 2 hours ago

Mainframe CICS Engineer

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid Level
money$0/hr - $65/hr

Apolis is a company seeking a Mainframe CICS Engineer responsible for all phases of CICS engineering and system maintenance. The role involves working in a large scale Sysplex environment, interfacing with application developers and operations teams, and providing on-call support outside of normal working hours.

ConsultingEnterprise ApplicationsEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Information TechnologyIT InfrastructureIT ManagementMobileSoftwareWeb Hosting
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Responsibilities

Responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system and software maintenance, and CICS related operation functions
Comfortable working with CICS in a 24x7 large scale Sysplex and CICSPlex environment
Able to interface with application developers and operations teams
Provide on-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours to support the CICS environment and to resolve issues

Qualification

CICS performance tuningCICS debuggingCICSPlex implementationSMP/E knowledgeCICS monitoring toolsCobol knowledgeMainframe Websphere MQAssembler knowledgeREXX codingCICS Exits knowledgeWeb application supportZOS facilities understandingCICS Configuration ManagerCICS REST Services understandingPrior application programmingCommunication 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
Good oral/written communication skills

Preferred

Assembler, COBOL and REXX coding and knowledge of CICS Exits
Web application support in a CICS TS V5.x and/or 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

Apolis

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Apolis is a IT consultancy that offers provides ERP solutions, hosting, assessment, web and mobile, IT staffing and IT workforce solutions.
dateFounded in 1996
location
El Segundo, California, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
web-link
https://apolisrises.com/

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Amar Shokeen
President/ CEO
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Rita Shokeen
COO
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