Mainframe CICS Engineer

1 month ago


Toronto, Canada Ampcus Incorporated Full time

Bravens Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ampcus Inc., is an information technology consulting and services company. Bravens is a leader in providing tailored staffing solutions across both IT and non-IT industries. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented team and contribute to our ongoing success. 

Job Title: Mainframe CICS Engineer

Location(s):  Toronto, ON


Summary: 
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 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 to resolve issues.

Skills Required:
· Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrades and maintenance
· Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.
· Knowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics necessary to tune CICS regions
· Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc.
· Knowledge of the CICS resource definitions, including those that pertain to CICS region performance
· Experienced with the CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICS.
· Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning
· Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers
· Experience with Mainframe Websphere MQ
· Good oral/written communication skills

Skills desired:
· Assembler, COBOL and REXX coding and knowledge of CICS Exits
· Web application support in a CICS TS V5.x and/or V6.x environment
· Understanding of zOS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, RLS, Coupling Facility
· Utilization of CICS Configuration Manager
· Working knowledge of zOS & CICS Explorer
· Understanding of CICS REST Services
· Prior Application programming experience a plus.

Bravens is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.



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