Mainframe CICS / MQ Administrator & Mainframe ZOS / DB2 System Programmer

Location- Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad,

Note : Developer profiles will not be considered

Experience- L3 LEVEL (9-10 years Required)

we have other roles open as well with Mainframe Batch scheduler & Storage Administrator

Mainframe CICS Admin

• Understanding of a CICS MRO environment (TOR and AOR configuration)
• Set traces (Aux and GTF) – ability to set traces to aid vendors in problem management and determination.
• CICS shutdown statistics – be able to produce and interpret shutdown stats to aid in problem determination and growth projections.
• Understanding of the CICS dynamic storage areas and how to manipulate for short on storage situations or to accommodate future growth of applications.
• Create both transaction and system dumps (and port to vendors for analysis)
• RDO (resource definition online) – must be able to create any resource needed on CICS (e.g transactions, programs, files, transient data queue, LSR groups, etc)
• Web Services – creating and supporting of web services within CICS
• RACF security – ability to install CICS security requirements, maintain RACF security within CICS and on all CICS resources
• Tivoli / Omegamon products (this is our monitoring software for CICS, z / OS, MQ, IIB, DB2 and the web portal (on windows) – our CICS admin is responsible for installing and maintaining all these monitoring tools.)
• Intertest / Symdump – product to debug CICS programs, product to format transaction dumps – install and maintain (and aid developers with questions and use)
• SDS – CAFC (CICS application file control) – install product and use for control of files, application lists and group lists. Assist Operators when needed on use and problem determination if applications are failing.
• Trillium and Code1 software – aid in installation and day to day management of software
• Compuware products specifically File-aid – proficient at manipulation of files through file-aid software
• Splunk – proficient at creating (modifying) Splunk reports (dashboards) to report on All CICS metrics (e.g CPU consumption, storage consumption, transaction volume, response times, wait times, etc)

Mainframe MQ Admin

Mainframe ZOS System Programmer

Minimum 10+ years of broad and in-depth hands-on technical and design / architect level experience in Mainframe z / OS

Experience in a multi-site (multiple Data Center) Mainframe shop of minimum 2,000 MIPS and above.

Work with Client / Customer, OEM & ISV Vendors, Business Partners related to all aspects of the Mainframe Platform.

Mainframe ZOS System Programmer

L3 :  10+ Years of experience in Mainframe z / OS Db2 v13 Database Administration

Experience in Mainframe Db2 v12 / v13 Database System-Administration on z / OS

DB2 installation, upgrade, patching, configuration and operations

Proficiency in DB2, VSAM Systems Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning

Experience in Data Sharing setup in Parallel Sysplex environment

Knowledge in ACF2 / RACF, CICS v5.5, Mainframe MQ v9

Experience in SMPE and ISV tools installation and migration

Create and maintain database entities, including instances, databases, table spaces and tables

Database DR, Cloning, Backup / Recovery, HA and Point in Time Recovery (PITR) expertise

Experience with Database ISV Tools and Products like OmegaMon and AdminTool

Application related performance tuning; Write, modify, and debug database specific SQL queries

DBA related utilities like Unload, Load, DSNJU003, DSNJU004, Reorg, Runstats, image copy

REXX, CLIST, JCL, JES and Assembler knowledge

Skills Required

Vsam, Ispf, Database Administration, Cics, Performance Tuning, Rexx, Cobol, SDS, Ibm Mq, Disaster Recovery, Trillium, Clist, Capacity Planning, Db2, Jcl, Racf, Assembler, Splunk, z os