DDC-IT Services is seeking individuals to fill a remote role of Senior z/OS CICS Transaction Server System Programmer. Active Secret Clearance and eligibility to acquire a Top Secret Clearance is required for this role.
Plan, install, upgrade, implement, maintain and customize IBM CICS Transaction Server (TS) including Multi-Region Operation and WebSphere Application Server (WAS).
Implement an automated build process for WAS to provide a simple method for developers to accomplish builds for development, test, and production environments.
Establish CICS/TS intercommunications.
Implement WAS authentication and authorization capabilities to secure administrative functions and applications confidentiality.
Implement CICS/TS facilities including Function Request Shipping, Asynchronous Processing, Transaction Routing, Distributed Transaction Processing, and Web Support Services.
Assist and lead the design and maintenance of the integrity of production CICS/TS Virtual Sequential Access Method (VSAM) files.
Modify CICS/TS systems/regions as DoD requirements change.
Perform integration, regression, and concurrence testing of CICS/TS systems and applications.
Provide technical services to the customer on questions and issues relating to the database software maintained on the systems for IBM CICS, Message Queuing (MQ), and WAS.
Diagnose and resolve CICS environment system abends and abnormal operating problems using system logs and other available logs.
Provide administration of IBM MQ series, including defining an environment from initial install.
Create, define, modify, and understand CICS parameters to create new regions per requested criteria.
Create and maintain backup processing for CICS & MQ and their associated products.
Implement security management and auditing with RACF for z/OS.
Implement WAS high availability manager service to eliminate single points of failure in application servers.
Support DOD Cyber Security requirements, Authority to Operate (ATO) preparation, and security audits.
Maintain all CICS/TS system exits written in IBM’s High Level Assembler Language (HLAL).
Analyze CICS, MQ, and WAS software environments to provide performance tuning recommendations.
Analyze causes of outages to provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reports and lead mitigation efforts.
Active Secret Clearance and eligibility to acquire a Top Secret Clearance.
Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math and seven years' experience with IBM CICS, MQ, and WebSphere products in a large mainframe environment.
Or Ten years' experience with IBM CICS, MQ, and WebSphere products in a large mainframe environment.