Mainframe CICS Systems Engineer

Required experience :

• A minimum of ten years working as a CICS Systems Programmer / Engineer
• Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.
• Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrade and maintenance
• In depth knowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics for tuning CICS regions
• Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc.
• Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning.
• Experienced with the CICS monitoring tools Sysview.
• Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers.
• Experience with Mainframe WebSphere MQ

Desired / preferred experience

• Assembler and COBOL coding and knowledge of CICS Exits
• Web application support in a CICS TS V5 environment
• Knowledge of zOS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, Coupling Facility
• Experience with CICS Interdependency Analyzer tool.
• Working knowledge of the zOS & CICS Explorer
• Knowledge of Natural language & Adabas
• Prior Application programming experience