Mainframe CICS Admin

Job Description: Desired Competencies (Technical/Behavioral Competency) Must-Have: · IBM/vendor support – familiar with IBM and other vendors web sites: Open problem cases, ask questions, prepare and send dumps. · SMP/E – in depth knowledge to do install work on CICS and any associated products · Security – in depth knowledge of ACF2 (must be able to install security on CICS and associated products and create ACF2 security rules as they pertain to CICS) · SMF – moderate skill set required to gather and manipulate SMF data (specifically the CICS 110 records) · Problem determination skills – ability to diagnose problem and determine root cause and remediation CICS specific skill set: · 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 · Broadcom ACF2 security – ability to install CICS security requirements, maintain ACF2 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.) · Broadcom 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) Job Type: Full-time Experience level: 10 years 11+ years 8 years 9 years Schedule: 8 hour shift Experience: Mainframe development: 10 years (Required) CICS: 7 years (Required) Security clearance: Confidential (Preferred) Work Location: On the road