Mainframe CICS Engineer

Software International (SI) supplies technical talent to a variety of Fortune 100/500/1000 and many other midsized and startup organizations across Canada and the US.

This is a role with our F500 cojsulting client working with one of their key customers in Canada. This will be be fully remote but candidates must be authorized to work in Canada.

Role : Mainframe CICS Engineer

Location: Greater Toronto Area Canada

Type: Remote (Must be able to work EST)

Salary/Rate : $8090/hr C2C

Job Details

Department Overview Enterprise Technology & Services (ETS) delivers shared technology services for a major financial client supporting all business applications and end users. ETS provides capabilities for all stages of clients software development lifecycle enabling productive coding functional and integration testing application releases and ongoing monitoring and support

for over 3000 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 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 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.

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

Good oral/written communication skills

Skills desired:

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.