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CICS System Programmer (Mainframe)

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£450 - 550 monthly

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Job Description - CICS System Programmer (Mainframe)

 

Role – CICS System Programmer (Mainframe)

Location : UK/ Denmark

Contract Role

Work Mode : Hybrid Mode

Experience : 10+ Years

 

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.

 

  • 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.
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