Mainframe CICS Engineer

Hello There

My name is Himanshu Sharma and I serve as the Recruitment Lead at Kanak-IT INC. I am reaching out to share an excellent career opportunity for the role of Mainframe CICS Engineer with our esteemed client. If you are interested then please share your updated resume at .

Job Description

Position : Mainframe CICS Engineer

Location : New York NY Onsite (locals only)

Duration : Long term contract

Department Overview

We deliver shared technology services for Clients supporting all business applications and end users. We provide capabilities for all stages of Clients software development lifecycle enabling productive coding functional and integration testing application releases and ongoing monitoring and support for over 3000 production applications. We also deliver all workplace technologies (desktop mobile voice video productivity intranet/internet) in integrated configurations that boost the personal productivity of employees. Application and end user functions are delivered on a scalable secure and reliable infrastructure composed of seamlessly integrated datacenter network compute cloud storage and database functions.

Description
The Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer/Engineer is responsible for all phases of CICS engineering system and software maintenance and CICS related operational functions. The candidate must be comfortable working with CICS in a 24x7 large scale Sysplex and CICSPlex environment and must be able to interface with application developers and operations teams. The CICS engineer should have strong analytical organizational and communication skills as well as in-depth knowledge in CICS performance & tuning debugging and dump analysis. On-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the CICS environment and to resolve issues.

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
- Excellent oral/written communication skills

Skills desired:
- 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.