TESTQ Technologies
Mainframe CICS Administrator
Sheffield
Posted about 15 hours ago
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Experience: 5 to 7
Primary Skills
- CICS Administration
- CICS Transaction Server
- CICSplex System Manager
- Mainframe Support
- zOS
- JCL
- Omegamon
- Sysview
- CICS Performance Tuning
- Production Support
Secondary Skills
- zCEE
- CICS PA
- CAFC
- JVM Servers
- CICS SSL
- CMAS
- MRO
- SNA
- ServiceNow
- BMC Remedy
- DataPower
- WAS
- Java Integration
- Disaster Recovery
- Assembler Analysis
Responsibilities
- Install, upgrade, configure, and maintain CICS Transaction Servers and related products
- Manage maintenance activities including application of fixes, patches, and upgrades
- Configure and support CICS Web Services, CICSplex System Manager, JVM Servers, and related components
- Monitor and administer CICS environments to ensure service availability and operational performance
- Perform performance analysis, tuning, and capacity optimization activities
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and infrastructure issues
- Support CICS architecture, connectivity, and security troubleshooting activities
- Monitor incidents and service requests, ensuring resolution within agreed SLAs
- Support change implementations, maintenance activities, and weekend production deployments
- Provide 24x7 rotational production support and incident resolution
- Utilize monitoring and diagnostic tools to investigate and resolve issues
- Maintain Disaster Recovery (DR) operational procedures and documentation
- Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and support teams to maintain platform stability and reliability
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To be successful in this role, you should have
- Experience with installation, upgrade, and maintenance of CICS Transaction Server environments
- Knowledge of zCEE, CICS PA, CAFC, and related Mainframe products
- Experience supporting CICS Web Services, CICSplex System Manager, JVM Servers, and Angels
- Strong understanding of CICS architecture, including CMAS, MRO, and non-MRO environments
- Hands-on experience with CICS SSL configuration and troubleshooting
- Experience using monitoring tools such as Omegamon, Sysview, MainView, or similar
- Ability to perform performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and tuning
- Knowledge of System z communications and SNA concepts
- Ability to interpret assembler output listings
- Working knowledge of zOS and JCL
- Experience with ServiceNow, BMC Remedy, or similar ITSM tools
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Experience supporting DataPower, WAS, Java integrations, and CICS connectivity
- Knowledge of Disaster Recovery processes and operational documentation
- Ability to work in production support environments with on-call and weekend support responsibilities
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Skills
- Mandatory Skills: Mainframe, Autosys, TAP_MS_Support
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Skills
CICS Administration
CICS Transaction Server
CICSplex System Manager
zOS
JCL
Omegamon
Sysview
CICS Performance Tuning
zCEE
CICS PA
CAFC
JVM Servers
CICS SSL
CMAS
MRO
SNA