Job Title: Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin

Location: San Antonio - Onsite or Relocation Candidates

Years of Experience:

Minimum 10+ years of experience in CICS/MQ on zOS administration

Top Required Skills:

Job Description/ Responsibilities:

CICS Administrator
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

MQ on z/OS Administrator

Expericne in MQ product upgrades and maintenance
Defining and Monitoring MQ objects
MQ region build
Knowledge on MQ sharing concepts (mandatory)
Operating with CICS adapter control functions to initiate and manage connections between WebSphere MQ and CICS
Managing Websphere MQ resources(BSDS, Pagesets, buffer pools, logs)

Relocation,