Job Title – CICS System Programmer (Mainframe)
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.