Mainframe Admin

Title: Mainframe Admin (Hybrid)
Location: San Antonio, TX
Client are looking for Admins with experience on IBM mainframe system related work - upgrades, installing patches and license renewals of IBM and other vendor tools and technologies runs on mainframe - mainly ACF2, CA LADP, CICS, Performance Analyzer, Fault Analyzer, Fault Manager, Sysview, DLM8500 Virtual Tape, SRDF, FDR, MicroFocus Changeman.
Responsibilities:

• Maintain IBM CICS and Message Queuing (MQ) software including all changes, upgrades, and patching
• Address and questions and issues related to IBM CICS and Message Queuing (MQ) software.
• Maintain software, CICS and MQ environments in compliance with the security guidelines
• Diagnose and resolve CICS environment system abends and abnormal operating problems using system logs, and other available logs and documents. This includes creating and interpreting system traces and dumps, job output, and monitoring tools.
• Install, customize, upgrade and maintain CICS and MQ Software on mainframe computer platforms running z/OS.
• Participate in planning and executing database migrations, application software upgrades/migrations.
• Analyze CICS & MQ software environments to provide performance tuning recommendations and plans.
• Create, define, modify, and understand CICS parameters to be able to create new regions per requested criteria without assistance.
• Create and maintain backup processing for CICS & MQ and their associated products.
• Provide support in solving CICS applications and system related problems
• Installing software - Running installation jobs and scripts, Performing installation-specific customization tasks
• System parameters/parmlib maintenance
• Maintaining ACF2
• Capacity planning
• Integration-testing the new products with existing applications and user procedures
• System-wide performance tuning to meet required levels of service
• Performing IPLs, conducting DR exercise
• Monitoring system performance
• Managing incidents on z/OS related issues
• SMF configuration/SMS policies updates and maintenance.
• Planning hardware and software system upgrades and changes in configuration.
• Automating operations

Must Have Skills :

• 5+ Yrs of Exp - Mainframe administrator with knowledge in maintaining IBM mainframe with Z/OS
• ACF2, CA LADP, CICS
• Performance Analyzer, Fault Analyzer, Fault Manager
• Sysview

Good To have Skills:

• DLM8500 Virtual Tape
• SRDF
• FDR, MicroFocus Changeman