What are the responsibilities and job description for the CICS Admin position at Digitive LLC?
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CICS Admin
Hybrid - Hartford, CT/St Paul, MN/Hunt Valley, MD
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CICS Explorer
C/Parse
CAFC
XPEDITER for CICS
Finalist
GENTRAN
Key/101
Abend-Aid CICS
Job Description/ Responsibilities:
Installation, maintenance, and administration of CICS software. Manage deployments of maintenance releases, red-alerts, and emergency maintenance.
Incident Management / Problem Management by performing problem analysis and resolution implementation
Conduct software proof of concept and product evaluations
Research emerging technology and industry practices, and develop and maintain Roadmaps
Maintain standards and best practices documentation
Support highly available, sysplexed CICS environments on zSeries.
Support for application development and testing, and for the analysis and resolution of problems with CICS product sets, in both production and non-production environments
Ability to work with other data center groups to develop and implement processes that enhance the support infrastructure for CICS product set, including Automation, Change Management, operational procedures
Collaborate with the CICS Production Support team on problem and incident management, disaster recovery, sustained resiliency, LOB testing events, and capacity planning requirements as needed.
Drive creation and support scripted solutions for standard processes
Drive creation and support for automated solutions for the environment
Drive innovation research of new features and functionality available in our software/hardware and prepare a plan for rolling these innovations
Technical Skillset:
- Excellent skills on CICS administration which include CICS and its product administration
- Experience in CICS version upgrades/migration
- Applying patches to CICS software, Hostbridge
- CICS ISVs upgrades and maintenance
- Resource definition Online and batch mode
- CICS region build
- Knowledge on CICSPlex concepts (mandatory)
- Configuration of CICS initialization parameters
- Troubleshooting and resolving system related abends and issues
- Identifying patches that need to be installed, and having them installed
- Security administration for CICS
- Performance monitoring and tuning
- CICS intercommunication setup and maintenance
- 24*7 support
- Assist in application team on CICS specific issues
- Excellent skills on CICS administration which include CICS and its product administration
- Experience in CICS version upgrades/migration
- Applying patches to CICS software, Hostbridge
- CICS ISVs upgrades and maintenance
- Resource definition Online and batch mode
- CICS region build
- Knowledge on CICSPlex concepts (mandatory)
- Configuration of CICS initialization parameters
- Troubleshooting and resolving system related abends and issues
- Identifying patches that need to be installed, and having them installed
- Security administration for CICS
- Performance monitoring and tuning
- CICS intercommunication setup and maintenance
- 24*7 support
- Assist in application team on CICS specific issues
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