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Hi , Hope you are doing well today. My name is *Bilal* and I am an *IT Technical Recruiter from VERTEX GROUP *based in Illinois, if you feel comfortable with the requirement reply me ASAP……. Quick Response is Appreciated. *Below are the Position Details:* *Position : **mainframe with CICS Systems Programmer* *Location : Omaha, NE* *Duration : 12 month contract * General Description: The person in this position is responsible for all aspects of supporting CICS Services running in a mainframe environment (z13). This person must monitor CICS performance and identify and make adjustments as necessary to maintain peak performance. Strong problem diagnostics skills are a must. The candidates must be able to work with customers and vendors in resolving CICS related issues. Responsibilities include active participation in planning, design, testing, documenting and researching all CICS group projects. The candidate must be able to work with other internal support groups, insuring the environment is capable of providing service as changing requirements dictate. The candidates must possess not only technical expertise, but also effective oral and written communications skills, plus good organizational skills. The candidates must be effective working independently and with others with minimal supervision. This position requires a minimum of 5+ year’s hands-on experience performing CICS Systems Support duties. Areas of focus: General Duties: · Coordinates work efforts and makes assignments as necessary. Reviews and monitor work assignments. · Prepares project and work plans. Reviews plans to ensure they align with state, department, area, and application goals. Plans always include: business objectives, testing plans, detail plans, contingency plans, implementation plans, and coordination for change control. · Assists and mentors other IT Systems Programmers as necessary. · Performs technical research as necessary. · Provides high level service to our clients which meets or exceeds their expectations. CICS Environment Duties: · Support CICS release levels of TS v3.2 and higher. · Upgrade CICS TS environment with new releases. · Support CICSPlex SM environment. · Upgrade CICSPlex SM environment. · Perform work assignments within CICS using MRO concepts. · Use CICS Explorer to monitor CICS systems. · Use RACF to support the client’s requirements for CICS Applications. · Solve complex CICS problems effectively and quickly with minimal assistance and direction. · Support On-Call 24x7. · Support clients with various Web application types. · Solve complex problems with limited assistance. · Support CICS applications that use DB2. Software Duties: · Researches vendor software announcements of new releases and products and prepares appropriate action recommendations. Also researches vendor software products as necessary to fulfill state requirements. · Develops software installation and implementation plans, which include: installation, configuration, testing, and migration. · Designs enhancements or processes to incorporate new function and methodology into mainframe software products. · Schedules and coordinates all software changes, while considering all other facets. · Performs software installs using SMP/E. Capacity Planning: · Performs reporting and monitoring to measure capacity, performance, and growth for CICS Services · Troubleshoots CICS performance problems and offers tuning solutions to achieve optimum processing capabilities · Collects and verifies usage data for capacity, performance, problem and billing · Defines performance objectives and capacity considerations for CICS plus monitors and evaluates CICS system performance against those objectives and considerations and provides recommendations as necessary. Required Knowledge & Skills: · Experience as a CICS Systems Programmer sufficient enough that you would require only minimal guidance for projects. · Experience with CICS TS v3.2 or higher. · Experience with automation within CICS Systems duties. · Experience with capacity and performance issues. · Experience reading and debugging using mainframe core dumps. · Experience with TSO/ISPF/SDSF/JCL. · Experience with Disaster Recovery processes. · Experience with SMP/E. · Experience with CICS TS with DB2. · Experience with researching technical issues and possible software solutions. Desirable Knowledge & Skills: · Experience with IBM CICS Tools IA, CM, PA, and DA. · Experience with Omegamon XE. · Experience with programming languages like; Assembler, REXX, other script languages, etc. · Experience with High Availability Applications. Regards, Bilal Qamar [email protected] *The best way to contact me is by email:* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SAP BASIS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sap-basis. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
