Mainframe Middleware Administration

Manage BAU (Business As Usual) Service Delivery for Mainframe Middleware CICS MQ IMS TM in a Technical Capacity

Provide Business hours support and then OnCall support as is the norm in BAU Service Delivery Role.

Develop design maintain test document and deploy CICS systemslevel and application software features and changes.

Administer a large CICS Production and Test environment utilizing CPSM (Sysplex mainframe environment).

Administer 3rdparty systems software including CICS system utilities along with application software development libraries (COBOL JCL PROCs PARMs copybooks). Assembler is a plus but not required.

Performance and Tuning in a large Z/OS Environment. Including Dump skills for Trouble shooting.

Create new or modify existing CICS regions in support of new applications or CICS architecture reengineering initiatives.

Install and maintain installation and maintenance of CICS software (Including CPSM support) and thirdparty vendor software to maintain a reliable and stable infrastructure.

Proficient with the IBM Information Management System DC

Knowledge of IMS Transaction Manager (IMS/TM) Explore how these facilities work together and how application programs interact with them in todays complex enterprise systems

Installation patching configuring and problem determination for IMS

Building and management of IMS in a highly available environment on the Mainframe platforms

Work with and manage an IMS system: Data Communications (DC)

Systems/Applications Management

Troubleshooting/Performance Tuning of IMS

Support Mainframe Online/OLTP environment CICS MQ WAS

Support Mainframe Message Transfer & Connectivity environments z/OS CONNECT

Good understanding of Messaging Interfaces and Connections to DB2 IMS Datacom

Monitoring Incident and Problem Management of Mainframe Middleware environment

IBM and ISV Vendor Coordination for Ticketing Incidents/Problems SW downloads Escalations

Work on Mainframe Middleware administration Tools and Products