CICS System Engineer

My Dutch customer has a requirement for a CICS Systems Engineer for a 6 month contract but with the possibility of further extension beyond the initial period.

The present Mainframe system is an IBM zEC, running z/OS 1.13 and supporting approximately 120 CICS 4.2 regions. These are spread across 7 z/OS lpars managed by CPSM. The main programming languages and associated sub-systems are Assembler, Cobol, PL1, C/C++, MQSeries, TCP/IP, and DB2.

The CICS system engineering team forms part of the z/OS and subsystems department. As part of a recent re-organisation, the CICS and MQSeries sub-teams were merged so this role encompasses some aspects of both environments. There are 4 MQSeries queue managers running on z/OS at the moment.

The successful applicant will have in depth CICS system engineering experience in a CICS TS environment as well as experience in the CICS interfaces to MQ and DB2. In addition knowledge of CICS Web Services and CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS would be beneficial. The role will encompass assistance in the CICS system installation, configuration and maintenance, investigation and resolution of CICS related problems in both the test and production environments, provide CICS tuning and planning advice, provide CICS consultancy services to the application teams on new project development and implementation, provide MQSeries administration cover for other members of the team, defining objects when necessary and resolving problems in both the test and production environments.