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.
Additional employment information
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Applicants for US based positions must be currently authorized to work for any employer in the United States. The company is unable to provide employment-based immigration sponsorship for US based positions.
If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] for roles based in the Americas or [email protected] for roles based in India.
About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
