IBM Delivery Consultant-CICS-MQ Admin 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

867427779

• Working under general supervision you will be understanding clients’ main challenges and developing solutions that help them transform mission-critical IBM Z applications for hybrid cloud environments with stability, security, and agility.
• Participating in planning, installing, configuring, maintaining, verifying, and administering, CICS & MQ on z/OS
• working closely with various stakeholders to ensure the efficient functioning of CMOD and to support the organization’s document and content management needs.
• Be a hands-on person and deliver and Involve in product installation/ configurations, troubleshooting (performance, 3rd party integrations, security)
• Based on customer requirements, deliver the deployment
• System Administration: Install, configure, and maintain IBM Content Manager OnDemand software. Manage user access, security, and permissions within the CICS/CICSPlex,
• Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize the performance of the CICS/PLEX. Diagnose and resolve performance-related issues.
• Maintenance and Upgrades: Perform routine system maintenance tasks, including backups and system updates. Plan and execute upgrades to newer versions of CICS & MQ and related subsystems.
• Create and maintain CICS regions used by the applications including Assembler and Cobol programs
• Administer the CICS regions according to application requirements (create new objects: transactions, tclass, programs)
• Create and maintain the CICS monitoring infrastructure (OMEGAMON, System Automation feeds, etc.)
• Provide and analyze SMF statistics on usage to various parties (eg. developers, managers, Operational Security Department)
• Investigate and resolve problems in CICS and related areas
• Investigation and evaluation of new products in the area (eg. the CICS Explorer)
• Control and investigate CICS CPU usage
• Provide support to the application programming groups including handling inquiry and new resource, requests, coding design questions, assist in resolving issues and abends

• MQ part:
• Control and investigate MQ CPU usage
• Control and investigate MQ queues usage
• Control and investigate Space usage
• Deliver and analyze SMF statistics
• Define MQ objects (channels, queues, aliases, etc.)
• Maintain and adapt according to application growth (eg. new page sets, etc.)
• Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team.
• Participating in technical solution workshops

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 11-16+ Years of industry experience.
  • Provide technical support for customer. Own and action requests for service,
  • Implementing changes and resolving assigned problems (may involve some after hours and weekend work).
  • Provide 24×7 after hours on-call support as required for products supported by the team
  • Personal compliance and ownership on security, audit and systems integrity posture
  • Highlight areas for improvement in current processes, and implement improvements Must have:
• • At least 10 years of experience on similar position
• English: intermediate level
• Technical and Professional Expertise
• Candidate should be self-organized, eager to learn with strong sense of analysis & troubleshooting skills
• Ability to take the lead in problem solving and coordination of multi-disciplinary groups
• Ability to multitask and switch to higher priority tasks when required
• Take a lead for specific responsibility or area when needed
• Experience using GSD or SMP/E for product installs and applying maintenance
• Experience using trace, dumps and monitoring software for problem investigation and resolution
• Experience coding programs in REXX
• Experience with Omegamon/Tivoli products in terms of monitoring and problem determination
• CICS knowledge:
• Install, upgrade and maintain the CICS and CTG software
• Create and maintain CICS regions
• Administer the CICS regions according to application demands (eg. new transactions, connections etc.) and support the merge process
• Create and maintain the CICS monitoring infrastructure (Omegamon, TMON, System Automation feeds, the ‘CICS Monitor’ etc)
• Investigate and resolve problems in CICS and related DBDC areas
• Performance review and tuning of the CICSes and CTGs
• Investigation and evaluation of new products in the area (eg. the CICS Explorer)
• MQ knowledge:
• Support, administration and maintenance of MQ on z/OS
• Must be passionate to Mentor juniors on their technical career development path
• Experienced in Designing and Planning overall Datacentre migration strategy & Execution.
• Conversion Infra tool development knowledge
• Dynamic team player who is comfortable working in a small, but rapidly evolving environment.
• A passion for making a difference in their profession and the environment.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise