CICS Mainframe Programmer

 JD attached -
Job Description:

As a CICS System Programmer, candidate will be part of a Global team responsible for building, configuring, and maintaining the Bank’s mainframe systems availability, efficiency, and resilience, underpinned by the architectural principle of cloned infrastructure, system configurations, applications. Key Responsibilities - • Perform mainframe CICS software upgrades coupled with administration and tuning to support mainframe environments. Current version is CICS 5.6. • Provide high degree of technical support (24*7) to reduce the likelihood of significant service outage or disaster. • Analyse new versions of CICS for functionality improving systems performance and reduce cost. • Tracking and analyzing performance and resource utilization of CICS systems • Recommend changes, upgrades, and enhancements based on the technical analysis. • Perform problem diagnostics and resolutions as well. • Participate in incident and problem management activities related to applications and CICS. • Encourage and ensure collaboration across functional users and vendors to provide guidance and manage different tasks with a “can-do” attitude. • Execute project and internal initiative responsibilities as assigned or delegated. • Walking ahead by being enthusiastic and responsible for strengthening and developing system skills. • Develop and maintain operational documentation, best practices, and run books for the operational platform. • Upskill junior systems programmers.

Primary Skills:

• Have 10+ years of experience of installing and/or customizing mainframe CICS software in Large Data sharing environments. • Have 5+ years of experience with CICSplex and CICS Explorer to manage CICS systems. • Solid understanding of  resource definitions and its dependencies.  CF structures and its practical use in a business environment. • Experience with Omegamon and Fault Analyzer along with basic dump analysis skills on IPCS. • Experience in cloning and sunsetting CICS regions. • Basic understanding of CICS security with RACF. • Exposure to working with SMF 110 records and its practical application in terms of problem determination. • Strong problem determination skills in both system and application areas • Proficient in working with high availability environment along with alignment to process (ITIL) • Experience working with and maintaining other vendor tools for CICS as well as exposure to common z/OS tools like SDSF RMF etc. • Experience with automating CICS events via CICSplex RTA and/or system automation tools on z/OS.

Secondary Skills:

• Experience with design, configuration and supporting Application community running Critical / 24*7 applications. • Proficiency with debugging application abends to assist programmers refine code.

Good to Have Skills:

• Programming skills - COBOL, PL/1, C, REXX, Assembler • Experience with basic aspects of MQ and DB2 administration and operations

Requirements

Required Proficiency: Advanced

Job Location : Bangalore,chennai,pune