Ztek Consulting · 14 hours ago
Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin
Ztek Consulting is seeking a Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system and software maintenance, and operational functions. The role involves working with CICS in a large scale Sysplex environment, interfacing with application developers and operations teams, and providing on-call support for the CICS 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
Able to interface with application developers and operations teams
Perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning
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
Qualification
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
Ztek Consulting
Ztek Consulting Inc is a minority- and woman-owned business enterprise that leverages a unique blend of human talent, machine learning algorithms, and artificial intelligence to provide customized talent management solutions for its clients.
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