CICSMQ Systems Programmer

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 comfortable working with CICS (and MQ) 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 indepth knowledge in CICS performance & tuning debugging and dump analysis. Oncall support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the CICS environment and to resolve issues. #LISK1

Skills Required:
Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex 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
Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization dynamic transaction routing etc.
Knowledge of the CICS resource definitions that pertain to CICS region performance
Ability to perform problem determination dump analysis and performance tuning
Experienced with the CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICS.
Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers
Experience with Mainframe Websphere MQ Good oral/written communication skills

Skills Desired:
Assembler and COBOL coding and knowledge of CICS Exits
Web application support in a CICS TS V5 environment Understanding of zOS facilities such as: APF Linklist VSAM LPA Coupling Facility
Good Project Management skills Knowledge of the CICS Interdependency Analyzer tool
Working knowledge of the zOS & CICS Explorer Knowledge of Natural language & Adabas