Adenza Developer

Job Description:

Job Title:

Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin

Location:

San Antonio - Onsite (preferred) - Open to remote for candidates meeting all requirements

* please confirm onsite availability in submission notes, local candidates will be prioritized
* Rate: $74/hr

Years of

Experience:

Minimum 10+ years of experience in CICS/MQ on zOS administration

Top

Required Skills:

- CICS product installation
- MQ product installation
- CICS/MQ upgrades

Job Description / Responsibilities:
CICS Administrator
- Excellent skills on CICS administration which include CICS and its product administration
- Experience in CICS version upgrades/migration
- Applying patches to CICS software, Host bridge
- CICS ISVs upgrades and maintenance
- Resource definition Online and batch mode
- CICS region build
- Knowledge on CICSPlex concepts (mandatory)
- Configuration of CICS initialization parameters
- Troubleshooting and resolving system related abends and issues
- Identifying patches that need to be installed, and having them installed
- Security administration for CICS
- Performance monitoring and tuning
- CICS intercommunication setup and maintenance
- 24
* 7 support
- Assist in application team on CICS specific issues

MQ on z/OS Administrator
- Expericne in MQ product upgrades and maintenance
- Defining and Monitoring MQ objects
- MQ region build
- Knowledge on MQ sharing concepts (mandatory)
- Operating with CICS adapter control functions to initiate and manage connections between Web Sphere MQ and CICS
- Managing Websphere MQ resources(BSDS, Pagesets, buffer pools, logs)