CICS System Programmer (Mainframe)...

Job Description Greetings From Ampstek Role: CICS System Programmer (Mainframe) Location : UK Duration : 6 Months If interested kindly share your CV at shrutika.b@ampstek.com 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. Mandatory Skills : – 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.