CICS / MQ on z/OS Infrastructure Lead

Cognizant Melbourne, Australia

Posted 4 days ago Permanent Competitive

Role Overview

Minimum 8+ years of hands-on experience in CICS and MQ administration on z/OS.
Proven experience leading infrastructure services, with responsibility for administration, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, performance, and production support.

CICS Administration

Strong expertise in CICS administration, including administration of CICS and associated products.
Experience with CICS version upgrades and migrations.
Apply and maintain patches for CICS software and HostBridge.
Manage CICS ISV product upgrades and maintenance.
Perform resource definitions in both online and batch modes.
Build and configure CICS regions.
Strong knowledge of CICSPlex concepts (mandatory).
Configure and maintain CICS initialization parameters.
Troubleshoot and resolve system-related abends, incidents, and technical issues.
Identify required maintenance and patches and coordinate their installation.
Manage CICS security administration.
Perform performance monitoring, analysis, and tuning.
Configure and maintain CICS intercommunication.
Provide 24x7 production support as required.
Assist application teams in diagnosing and resolving CICS-specific issues.

MQ on z/OS Administration

Strong experience in IBM MQ on z/OS product upgrades and maintenance.
Define, administer, and monitor MQ objects.
Build and configure MQ regions.
Strong knowledge of MQ sharing concepts (mandatory).
Operate CICS adapter control functions to initiate and manage connections between MQ and CICS.
Manage MQ resources, including BSDS, page sets, buffer pools, and logs.

Job ID 00071229353

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