Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin
- Synchrony Systems Inc.
2 Days Ago
95000-110000 per Annum + Benefits
Yearly
Remote
5-44 Years
Required Skills: Mainframe CICS, IBM MQ, CICS
Job Description
Note: This role is not open for C2C/C2H/1099 or any contract arrangements
Job Description
- 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
- CICS TS v5.x, v6.x, CICSPlex - Install, Upgrade, Patch, Configure and RSU Maintenance (Including CPSM support)
- Understanding of a CICS MRO environment
- 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
- Install and maintain Tivoli/Omegamon products, Broadcom Intertest/Symdump used to debug CICS programs, to format transaction dumps, FileAid, Splunk
- SDS – CAFC (CICS application file control) – install product and use for control of files, application lists and group lists.
- Create new or modify existing CICS regions in support of new applications or CICS architecture re-engineering initiatives.
- Support Mainframe Message Transfer & Connectivity environments z/OS CONNECT
- Performance and Tuning in a large Z/OS Environment
- Nice to have knowledge with MQSeries and MQClients on distributed platforms.
- Nice to have knowledge Mainframe 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
Benefits Overview
- Discretionary Annual Incentive.
- Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
- Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
- Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
- Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
- Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
- Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.
