Cics Administration Jobs

Avanciers is a hiring Z/OS-Administration in Mississauga, ON (Hybrid). one of our Fortune 500 clients. This is a Contract role with the client.

Title :- CiCS Administration

Location :- Mississauga, ON (Hybrid)

Contract

Experience :- 9+ yrs in CICS L3 support

Mandatory:-

· Proven independent and direct capability at building, configuring, and upgrading CICS Transaction Server regions in a production environment.

· Proficient with associated product installations, applying maintenance, customizing products, configuring products

· Proven problem determination skills demonstrating independence and experience in troubleshooting, researching, and resolving complex issues, showing strong ability to utilize system diagnostics to arrive at problem solutions

· Demonstrated strong problem solving skills, including dump reading and use of performance monitors like CA-Sysview.

· Understanding of SMP/E concepts and IBM tools for identifying problems and fixes (IBMLink, SIS, ETR, etc.). Proficient with SMP/E (commands, terminology, problem determination).

· Build from scratch as well as clone CICS regions to be used in single, MRO or CICSPlex environments

· Use CICSPlex Web-User-Interface to create and administer changes in CICSPlex environments such as transaction route rules and real time analysis

· Create historical reports using Tivoli and SMF data in response to customer inquiries regarding transaction response time, storage & CPU usage, file i/o counts, wait reasons, etc.

· Monitor CICS performance using Omegamon and TMON in response to client calls about transaction response time, storage & CPU usage, file i/o counts, wait reasons, etc.

· Perform upgrade activities required when moving CICS, CPSM or CTG to newer versions or releases

· Read and interpret CICS system dumps

· Install, customize, maintain 3rd party products such as Compuware’s Abed-Aid/CICS, Xpeditor, CAFC, MacKinney Batch to CICS, etc.

· Participate in annual Disaster Recovery exercise activities: attending meetings, making CICS resource definition changes, monitoring network swing traffic, etc

Good to Have:-

· Research and apply fixes to CICS, CPSM and CTG

· Experienced in independently and directly managing projects of mid and high-level complexity

· IBM Assembler language familiarity, to be able to look at code and dumps and also to work with Exits

Soft Skills/Other skills

· Excellent communication and conversation skills (Verbal and Written)

· Good documentation skills

· Good working knowledge of MS OFFICE (Including MS Project and Visio)

· Should have a great customer handling skills

· Able to handle unforeseen situations

· High level of acceptance

· Worked on Production systems

· Datacenter understanding

· Experience with Database Migration, Installation, Upgrades and Patching

· Knowledge of Data warehousing and Other Technologies(RDBMS)

· Desirable to have experience in Federation set up

· Storage Management Techniques

· Experience on Sun / VERITAS / TSA cluster