Mainframe CICS Engineer - Remote - Contract

Our client operates across Canada. This company takes all reasonable measures to limit the number of positions in Quebec that require knowledge of a language other than French and only requires this where it is necessary, and its existing bilingual employees are unable to fulfill these job duties.

It has been determined that this position requires candidates to be fluent in English (oral and written). In particular, this position will require the employee to :

• Collaborate and provide support to other colleagues and business functions located outside of Quebec who do not speak French.
• Communicate regularly with English-speaking employees located outside Quebec.

Advantages

Why Join Us :

Remote work flexibility

Work in a large-scale organization within the finance industry

Responsibilities

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 (and MQ) 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 in-depth knowledge in CICS performance & tuning, debugging, and dump analysis.

On-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the CICS environment and resolve issues.

Qualifications

Skills Required :

Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.

Experience with SMP / E, software upgrade, and maintenance.

Familiarity with CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool for gathering statistics to tune CICS regions.

Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc.

Knowledge of the CICS resource definitions related to CICS region performance.

Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis, and performance tuning.

Experience with CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICS.

Knowledge of COBOL to support application developers.

Experience with Mainframe Websphere MQ.

Good oral / written communication skills.

Skills Desired :

Assembler and COBOL coding skills, knowledge of CICS Exits.

Web application support in a CICS TS V5 environment.

Understanding of zOS facilities such as APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, Coupling Facility.

Good project management skills.

Knowledge of the CICS Interdependency Analyzer tool.

Working knowledge of zOS & CICS Explorer.

Familiarity with Natural language & Adabas.

Prior application programming experience is a plus.

Summary

interested? Send your resume to :

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Subject : Mainframe CICS Engineer - Financial Industry

We can’t wait to hear from you and discuss how you can be part of our team!

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