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Mainframe CICS Engineer

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Title - Mainframe CICS Engineer
Location - Alpharetta, Georgia, GA, USA, 30022
Duration - Contract

Job Description:

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

Skills Required:
- 15+ years of experience working in a 24x7 large scale, parallel Sysplex,
CICSPlex, MQ sharing and DB2 data sharing environment with skills in CICSPlex
SM implementation, customization and dynamic transaction routing, etc.
- Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex
environment.
- Knowledge of the CICS resource definitions that pertain to CICS region
functionality and performance.
- Proficient in problem determination, dump analysis such as IPCS, and
performance tuning.
- Web services application support in a CICS TS V5 environment.
- Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrade and maintenance.
- Knowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer
tool to gather statistics necessary to tune CICS regions.
- Knowledge of the CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICS.
- Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers.
- Good oral/written communication skills.
- Experience with auditing of CICS environment using U.S. standards.
- Project management skills using tools such as Agile, Jira and Kanban.

Skills desired:
- Assembler and COBOL coding and knowledge of CICS Exits.
- Understanding of z/OS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, Coupling
Facility.
- Project Management skills.
- Knowledge of the CICS Performance Analyzer and CICS Interdependency Analyzer
tools.
- Working knowledge of the z/OS & CICS Explorer.
- Knowledge of Natural language & Adabas.
- Experience in CICS application programming.

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