Mainframe CICS Engineer

Software International (SI) supplies technical talent to a variety of Fortune 100/500/1000 and many other midsized and startup organizations across Canada and the US. This is a role with our F500 cojsulting client, working with one of their key customers in Canada. This will be be fully remote but candidates must be authorized to work in Canada. Role : Mainframe CICS Engineer Location: Greater Toronto Area, Canada Type: Remote (Must be able to work EST) Salary/Rate : $80-90/hr C2C Job Details Department Overview Enterprise Technology & Services (ETS) delivers shared technology services for a major financial client, supporting all business applications and end users. ETS provides capabilities for all stages of clients software development lifecycle, enabling productive coding, functional and integration testing, application releases, and ongoing monitoring and support for over 3,000 production applications. ETS also delivers all workplace technologies (desktop, mobile, voice, video, productivity, intranet/internet) in integrated configurations that boost the personal productivity of employees. Application and end user functions are delivered on a scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure composed of seamlessly integrated datacenter, network, compute, cloud, storage, and database functions. Our Team Mainframe Computing (MC) is a technology enabler for the business by providing a strong, resilient, and stable platform to host and enable business innovation/growth in our lines of business and global locations. MC consists of experienced administration, operations and engineering staff required to support the platform. In addition to flexible hours, the Firm enables its staff to work remotely. The mainframe engineers work with the latest hardware and software technologies. The IBM z platform and the mainframe disk and tape technologies are frequently refreshed across our datacenters. Mainframe CICS Engineer The Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer is responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system and software maintenance, and CICS related operation 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 maintenance · Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment. · Knowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics necessary to tune CICS regions · Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc. · Knowledge of the CICS resource definitions, including those that pertain to CICS region performance · Experienced with the CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICS. · Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning · Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers · Experience with Mainframe Websphere MQ · Good oral/written communication skills Skills desired: · Assembler, COBOL and REXX coding and knowledge of CICS Exits · Web application support in a CICS TS V5.x and/or V6.x environment · Understanding of zOS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, RLS, Coupling Facility · Utilization of CICS Configuration Manager · Working knowledge of zOS & CICS Explorer · Understanding of CICS REST Services · Prior Application programming experience a plus.