Mainframe Administrator

Job Description:

Requirements:

• 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, application software upgrades/migrations.
• Analyze CICS & MQ software environments to provide performance tuning 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 system related problems.
• Installing software - Running installation jobs and scripts, Performing installation-specific customization tasks.
• System parameters/parmlib maintenance.
• Maintaining ACF2.
• Capacity planning.
• Integration-testing the new products with existing applications and user procedures.
• System-wide performance tuning to meet required levels of service.
• Performing IPLs, conducting DR exercises.
• Monitoring system performance.
• Managing incidents on z/OS related issues.
• SMF configuration/SMS policies updates and maintenance.
• Planning hardware and software system upgrades and changes in configuration.
• Automating operations.