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Mainframe CICS & MQ Administrator

ClifyX

Mainframe CICS & MQ Administrator

Location: Remote

Key Responsibilities & Requirements
  • Hands-on experience in IBM MQ installation, upgrades, maintenance, configuration, and troubleshooting.
  • Strong expertise in MQ administration, including monitoring, alert setup, and message flow management using tools such as MQ Explorer, Omegamon, and TEPS.
  • Ability to design and implement MQ architecture patterns based on application requirements.
  • Experience in defining and managing MQ objects such as queues, channels, topics, and process definitions.
  • Proficiency in using MQ utilities for queue management activities (backup, message handling, cleanup, etc.).
  • Knowledge of MQ clustering, queue sharing, and queue manager setup, migration, and health monitoring.
  • Experience in performance monitoring and tuning, including CPU usage analysis using SMF statistics.
  • Strong understanding of integration with CICS, DB2, IMS, and third-party systems.
CICS Administration
  • Experience with CICS TS v5.x / v6.x and CICSPlex, including installation, upgrades, patching, configuration, and RSU maintenance.
  • Knowledge of CICS MRO environments and system architecture.
  • Ability to configure and manage CICS resources (RDO) such as transactions, programs, files, and queues.
  • Experience in troubleshooting using traces (Aux, GTF) and analyzing CICS shutdown statistics.
  • Understanding of CICS storage management and performance tuning.
  • Experience in generating and analyzing system and transaction dumps.
  • Exposure to CICS web services development and support.
Tools & Supporting Technologies
  • Experience with tools such as Tivoli/Omegamon, Broadcom Intertest/Symdump, FileAid, Splunk.
  • Knowledge of z/OS Connect and mainframe messaging/connectivity environments.
  • Familiarity with SDS / CAFC for file and application control.
Additional Skills (Nice to Have)
  • Knowledge of MQSeries / MQ Clients on distributed platforms.
  • Basic understanding of z/OS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF, COBOL.
Other Requirements
  • Experience in vendor coordination, incident management, and escalations.
  • Ability to support 24x7 on-call operations as required.
  • Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.
Vacancy posted 16 hours ago
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