Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer/Engineer - REMOTE

Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer/EngineerOpen to remote employee 12 months+The Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer/Engineer is responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system and software maintenance, and CICS related operational functions. The candidate must be comfortable working with CICS in a 24x7 large scale Sysplex and CICSPlex environment and must be able to interface with application developers and operations teams. The CICS engineer should have strong analytical, organizational and communication skills, as well as in-depth knowledge in CICS performance & tuning, debugging and dump analysis. On-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the CICS environment and to resolve issues.Skills Required:Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrades and maintenanceKnowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environmentKnowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics necessary to tune CICS regionsExperience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc.Knowledge of the CICS resource definitions, including those that pertain to CICS region performanceExperienced with the CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICSAbility to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuningKnowledge of Cobol to support application developersExperience with Mainframe Websphere MQExcellent oral/written communication skillsSkills Desired:Assembler, COBOL and REXX coding and knowledge of CICS ExitsWeb application support in a CICS TS V6.x environmentUnderstanding of zOS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, RLS, Coupling FacilityUtilization of CICS Configuration ManagerWorking knowledge of zOS & CICS ExplorerUnderstanding of CICS REST ServicesPrior Application programming experience a plus.