Mainframe CICS Engineer

Job Position: Mainframe CICS Engineer

Job Location: Remote - Canada

Job Type: Contract

Job Summary:

• 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

Desired Skills:

• 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