Hi All

Job Title: CICS Admin/Consultant

Locations: Remote

Long Term Contract

What are the top skills required for this role?

Job Description/ Responsibilities

Installation, maintenance, and administration of CICS software.
Manage deployments of maintenance releases, red-alerts, and emergency maintenance.
Incident Management / Problem Management by performing problem analysis and resolution implementation
Conduct software proof of concept and product evaluations
Research emerging technology and industry practices, and develop and maintain Roadmaps
Maintain standards and best practices documentation
Support highly available, sysplexed CICS environments on zSeries.
Support for application development and testing, and for the analysis and resolution of problems with CICS product sets, in both production and non-production environments
Ability to work with other data center groups to develop and implement processes that enhance the support infrastructure for CICS product set, including Automation, Change Management, operational procedures
Collaborate with the CICS Production Support team on problem and incident management, disaster recovery, sustained resiliency, LOB testing events, and capacity planning requirements as needed.
Drive creation and support scripted solutions for standard processes
Drive creation and support for automated solutions for the environment
Drive innovation – research of new features and functionality available in our software/hardware and prepare a plan for rolling these innovations.

Technical Skillset:

Excellent skills on CICS administration which include CICS and its product administration
Experience in CICS version upgrades/migration
Applying patches to CICS software, Hostbridge
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.