▷ [Urgent Search] Mainframe CICS/MQ Administrator & Mainframe ZOS/DB2 System Programmer

Job Description Location- Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Note: Developer profiles will not be considered Experience- L3 LEVEL (9-10 years Required) we have other roles open as well with Mainframe Batch scheduler & Storage Administrator Mainframe CICS Admin Understanding of a CICS MRO environment (TOR and AOR configuration) Set traces (Aux and GTF) ability to set traces to aid vendors in problem management and determination. CICS shutdown statistics be able to produce and interpret shutdown stats to aid in problem determination and growth projections. Understanding of the CICS dynamic storage areas and how to manipulate for short on storage situations or to accommodate future growth of applications. Create both transaction and system dumps (and port to vendors for analysis) RDO (resource definition online) must be able to create any resource needed on CICS (e.g transactions, programs, files, transient data queue, LSR groups, etc) Web Services creating and supporting of web services within CICS RACF security ability to install CICS security requirements, maintain RACF security within CICS and on all CICS resources Tivoli/Omegamon products (this is our monitoring software for CICS, z/OS, MQ, IIB, DB2 and the web portal (on windows) our CICS admin is responsible for installing and maintaining all these monitoring tools.) Intertest/Symdump product to debug CICS programs, product to format transaction dumps install and maintain (and aid developers with questions and use) SDS CAFC (CICS application file control) install product and use for control of files, application lists and group lists. Assist Operators when needed on use and problem determination if applications are failing. Trillium and Code1 software aid in installation and day to day management of software Compuware products specifically File-aid proficient at manipulation of files through file-aid software Splunk proficient at creating (modifying) Splunk reports (dashboards) to report on All CICS metrics (e.g CPU consumption, storage consumption, transaction volume, response times, wait times, etc) Mainframe MQ Admin Experience in IBM MQ product installation, upgrades, maintenance, configurations and troubleshooting. Expertise in administrating, alert setup and monitoring the message process using tools like MQ explorer, Omegamon for MQ and TEPS. Design the MQ architecture pattern for the message processing flow as per the new application requirement Defining the MQ objects queues, channel, process definition, Topic, etc . Skilled at executing IBM MQ utilities to handle the MQ queue messages(backup, deleting a particular records etc..) Maintain and adopt the new pagesets & bufferpool according to the application growth in MQ Knowledge on the MQ queue sharing and MQ clustering to handle the queue managers and its components. Strong knowledge on MQ queue manager creation/migration and daily health check and dead letter queue process automation Good understanding of messaging interfaces and connections to the IBM other products (such as CICS, DB2, IMS..) and third party application servers. Perform MQ online monitoring, investigate MQ CPU usage using SMF statistics analyze Nice to have knowledge with MQSeries and MQClients on distributed platforms. Nice to have knowledge Mainrame zOS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF and COBOL. IBM and ISV Vendor Coordination for Ticketing Incidents/Problems, SW downloads, Escalations Provide 24x7 after hours on-call support as required for products supported by the team Mainframe ZOS System Programmer Minimum 10+ years of broad and in-depth hands-on technical and design/architect level experience in Mainframe z/OS Experience in a multi-site (multiple Data Center) Mainframe shop of minimum 2,000 MIPS and above. Work with Client/Customer, OEM & ISV Vendors, Business Partners related to all aspects of the Mainframe Platform. Mainframe Data Center Architecture (Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, MGM, 2/3/4 site GDPS & GDDR) Conversant with both IBM and EMC HW and Replication methodology. Hitachi optional. Mainframe Data Center Physical Planning and Design Experience in IBM z14, z15 & z16 Mainframe HW and Parallel Sysplex/GDPS-GDDR Setup Experience in both IBM and EMC Disk and Tape Storage hardware, software and replication. z/OS v2.x, JES2/JES3, DFSMS, SNA/VTAM & TCP/IP, RMF/SMF Mainframe ToolsSIEM (Q-Radar), z/OS-SA or CA-OPS/MVS Automation Mainframe DB2, MQ, CICS, WAS, Control-M Mainframe Security ACF2 Mainframe Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning Experience in Disaster Recovery setup and conducting DR drills. Experience in Mainframe MIPS Optimization, Software rationalization Hands-on experience with Hitachi VSP 5500, IBM DS8000, IBM TS7000 etc. IBM-Metro/Global Mirror, Copy Services, EMC-SRDF, EMC-GDDR Flash Copy, BCV-SnapVX, zDP, Safe Guarded Copy (SGC) Setup and Manager Mainframe DC Storage Replication Mainframe ZOS System Programmer L3 :10+ Years of experience in Mainframe z/OS Db2 v13 Database Administration Experience in Mainframe Db2 v12/ v13 Database System-Administration on z/OS DB2 installation, upgrade, patching, configuration and operations Proficiency in DB2, VSAM Systems Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning Experience in Data Sharing setup in Parallel Sysplex environment Knowledge in ACF2/RACF, CICS v5.5, Mainframe MQ v9 Experience in SMPE and ISV tools installation and migration Create and maintain database entities, including instances, databases, table spaces and tables Database DR, Cloning, Backup/Recovery, HA and Point in Time Recovery (PITR) expertise Experience with Database ISV Tools and Products like OmegaMon and AdminTool Application related performance tuning; Write, modify, and debug database specific SQL queries DBA related utilities like Unload, Load, DSNJU003, DSNJU004, Reorg, Runstats, image copy REXX, CLIST, JCL, JES and Assembler knowledge