Senior CICS Administration Consultant Remote
Senior CICS Administration Consultant Remote
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For further inquiries regarding the following opportunity please contact our Talent Specialist:
Sudheendra
Title: Senior CICS Administration Consultant
Duration: 6 Months (with possible extension)
Location: Remote (Travel required 1015% for the business needs)
Candidates without visa restrictions please apply
References are required to be checked prior to client submission please do not apply if you are unwilling for that
Expected to be onsite in Springfield Illinois for up to 1week
Description:
- Maintain IBM CICS and Message Queuing (MQ) software including all changes upgrades and patching
- Address and questions and issues related to IBM CICS and Message Queuing (MQ) software.
- Maintain software CICS and MQ environments in compliance with the security guidelines
- Diagnose and resolve CICS environment system abends and abnormal operating problems using system logs and other available logs and documents. This includes creating and interpreting system traces and dumps job output and monitoring tools.
- Install customize upgrade and maintain CICS and MQ Software on mainframe computer platforms running z/OS.
- Participate in planning and executing database migrations and application software upgrades/migrations.
- Analyze CICS & MQ software environments to provide performancetuning recommendations and plans.
- Create define modify and understand CICS parameters to be able to create new regions per requested criteria without assistance.
- Create and maintain backup processing for CICS & MQ and their associated products.
- Provide support in solving CICS applications and systemrelated problems
- Installing software Running installation jobs and scripts Performing installationspecific customization tasks
- System parameters/parmlib maintenance
- Maintaining ACF2
- Capacity planning
- Integrationtesting the new products with existing applications and user procedures
- Systemwide performance tuning to meet required levels of service
- Performing IPLs conducting DR exercise
- Monitoring system performance
- Managing incidents on z/OSrelated issues
- SMF configuration/SMS policies updates and maintenance.
- Planning hardware and software system upgrades and changes in configuration
- Automating operations.
Desired skills:
- Familiarity with supporting and managing Content Manager and also LRS VPS and DRS
Qualifications:
- A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science IT or a related field or equivalent experience
- 10 experience with CICS system administration including setup configuration tuning and troubleshooting.
- Proficiency in mainframe technologies JCL COBOL and scripting languages.
- Knowledge of CICS transaction server CICS Performance Analyzer and debugging tools.
- Understanding of database systems security and network protocols related to mainframe environments.
- Strong analytical skills problemsolving ability and effective communication skills.
- Certifications related to IBM mainframe or CICS are highly regarded.
About us: DivIHN the IT Asset Performance Services organization provides Professional Consulting Custom Projects and Professional Resource Augmentation services to clients in the MidWest and beyond. The strategic characteristics of the organization are Standardization Specialization and Collaboration. DivIHN is an equal opportunity employer. DivIHN does not and shall not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race color religion (creed) gender gender expression age national origin (ancestry) disability marital status sexual orientation or military status.
Employment Type
Remote
Company Industry
Key Skills
- Fiscal Management
- Accounting Software
- Google Docs
- AS400
- Salesforce
- Financial Analysis
- Team Management
- Grant Writing
- CI/CD
- Incident Response
- Contracts
- Google Suite
