What are the responsibilities and job description for the CICS Administrator/IAM Analyst position at TekWissen ®?
Job Title: CICS Administrator/IAM Analyst
Work Location: Hartford, CT/St Paul, MN/Hunt Valley, MD
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Hybrid
Duration: 12 Months
Pay Rate: $50-$57 / Hourly
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company and is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.
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
Top skills required for this role:
- CICS Explorer
- C/Parse
- CAFC
- XPEDITER for CICS
- Finalist
- GENTRAN
- Key/101
- Abend-Aid CICS
TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Salary : $50 - $57
