Senior CICS Administration Consultant 2 Openings

• • • Maintain IBM CICS and Message Queuing (MQ) software including all changes upgrades and patching
    • Address and questions and issues related to IBM CICS and Message Queuing (MQ) software.
    • Maintain software CICS and MQ environments in compliance with the security guidelines
    • Diagnose and resolve CICS environment system abends and abnormal operating problems using system logs and other available logs and documents. This includes creating and interpreting system traces and dumps job output and monitoring tools.
    • Install customize upgrade and maintain CICS and MQ Software on mainframe computer platforms running z/OS.
    • Participate in planning and executing database migrations and application software upgrades/migrations.
    • Analyze CICS & MQ software environments to provide performancetuning recommendations and plans.
    • Create define modify and understand CICS parameters to be able to create new regions per requested criteria without assistance.
    • Create and maintain backup processing for CICS & MQ and their associated products.
    • Provide support in solving CICS applications and systemrelated problems
    • Installing software Running installation jobs and scripts Performing installationspecific customization tasks
    • System parameters/parmlib maintenance
    • Maintaining ACF2
    • Capacity planning
    • Integrationtesting the new products with existing applications and user procedures
    • Systemwide performance tuning to meet required levels of service
    • Performing IPLs conducting DR exercise
    • Monitoring system performance
    • Managing incidents on z/OSrelated issues
    • SMF configuration/SMS policies updates and maintenance.
    • Planning hardware and software system upgrades and changes in configuration
    • Automating operations.

Qualifications:

• • • A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science IT or related field or equivalent experience
    • 10 experience with CICS system administration including setup configuration tuning and troubleshooting.
    • Proficiency in mainframe technologies JCL COBOL and scripting languages.
    • Knowledge of CICS transaction server CICS Performance Analyzer and debugging tools.
    • Understanding of database systems security and network protocols related to mainframe environments.
    • Strong analytical skills problemsolving ability and effective communication skills.
    • Certifications related to IBM mainframe or CICS are highly regarded.