Mainframe CICS Engineer

3 weeks ago


New York, United States Russell Tobin Full time




What are we looking for in our Mainframe CICS Engineer?

Title:  Mainframe CICS Engineer

Location: New York, NY 10004

Duration: 12+ months (Potential conversion)

Pay Range : $75-90/hr. on W2 Depending on experience

Job Duties:

  • The Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer is responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system and software maintenance, and CICS related operation functions.
  • The candidate must be comfortable working with CICS (and MQ) in a 24x7 large scale Sysplex and CICSPlex environment and must be able to interface with application developers and operations teams.
  • The CICS engineer should have strong analytical, organizational and communication skills, as well as in-depth knowledge in CICS performance & tuning, debugging and dump analysis.
  • On-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the CICS environment and to resolve issues.

Skills Required:

  • Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.
  • Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrade and maintenance
  • Knowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics necessary to tune CICS regions
  • Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc.
  • Knowledge of the CICS resource definitions that pertain to CICS region performance
  • Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning
  • Experienced with the CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICS.
  • Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers
  • Experience with Mainframe Websphere MQ- Good oral/written communication skills

Skills desired:

  • Assembler and COBOL coding and knowledge of CICS Exits
  • Web application support in a CICS TS V5 environment- Understanding of zOS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, Coupling Facility
  • Good Project Management skills- Knowledge of the CICS Interdependency Analyzer tool
  • Working knowledge of the zOS & CICS Explorer- Knowledge of Natural language & Adabas
  • Prior Application programming experience a plus.

Russell Tobin / Pride Global offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance, and hospital indemnity), a 401(k)-retirement savings, life and disability insurance, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, legal support, auto and home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with some preferred vendors.

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Rate/Salary: $75-90/hr. on W2 Depending on experience



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