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 Himanshu01@kanakits.com .

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 Client's supporting all business applications and end users. We provide capabilities for all stages of Client's software development lifecycle, enabling productive coding, functional and integration testing, application releases, and ongoing monitoring and support for over 3,000 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

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