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Mainframe CICS Admin

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

Job Description:

Department Overview:
Enterprise Technology & Services (ETS) delivers shared technology services for
the Company supporting all business applications and end users. ETS provides
capabilities for all stages of the Company's software development lifecycle,
enabling productive coding, functional and integration testing, application
releases, and ongoing monitoring and support for over 3,000 production
applications. ETS also delivers 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.

Our Team:
Mainframe Computing (MC) is a technology enabler for the business by providing
a strong, resilient, and stable platform to host and enable business
innovation/growth in our lines of business and global locations. MC consists of
experienced administration, operations and engineering staff required to
support the platform. In addition to flexible hours, the Firm enables its staff
to work remotely. The mainframe engineers work with the latest hardware and
software technologies. The IBM z platform and the mainframe disk and tape
technologies are frequently refreshed across our datacenters.

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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