Role: CICS System programmer

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.

1. Skills Required:
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 SMP/E, software upgrade, maintenance, installation and customization
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 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

2. Skills desired:
Assembler and COBOL coding and knowledge of CICS Exits
Understanding of z/OS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, Coupling Facility
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


Skill Required:

CICS Programmer - Mainframe