Mainframe CICS/MQ Systems Programmer

Job Description:

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world’s largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience. Learn more about how we deliver excellence for our customers and colleagues at DXC.com.

Essential Job Functions

• Build, configure, and upgrade CICS Transaction Server regions independently.
• Maintain and upgrade MQSeries subsystems and related sub-products.
• Perform backup and restoration of MQSeries system components and ensure disaster recovery readiness (e.g., pagesets, logs, bootstrap datasets).
• Define and configure MQ Pagesets, allocate channels, define buffer pools, and enforce security rules for processes.
• Restore services and resolve problems through troubleshooting and corrective/preventive actions for both CICS and MQSeries.
• Coordinate technical activities across multiple resources and groups for projects.
• Provide on-call 24 x 7 support rotation.
• Perform disaster recovery drill exercises for CICS and MQSeries environments.
• Support MQSeries Distributed Queue Management.

Technical Expertise

• Demonstrated understanding of CICS Transaction Server system internals, including storage protection, transaction isolation, and RENTPGM protection.
• Experience with inter-region communication methods such as MRO and ISC.
• Familiarity with IBM Assembler language sufficient to analyze code, dumps, and exits.
• Experience with standard MVS tools: TSO/ISPF, JCL, IBM Utilities, VSAM Utilities, SDSF, etc.
• Knowledge of security packages, including ACF2, RACF, and/or Top Secret.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning and execution for CICS and MQSeries environments.
• Application of preventative and corrective maintenance PTFs and HIPER PTFs on test and production system software libraries.
• Installation and support of vendor products running within CICS.
• Familiarity with network connectivity installation on the mainframe side.

Other Qualifications

• Ability to perform change management functions, including ticketing, opening/closing changes, and resolving compliance issues.
• Strong skills in performing data security audits, collecting evidence of compliance, and addressing non-compliance findings.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team.
• Ability to handle multiple concurrent projects while meeting deadlines and milestones.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to enforce MQSeries security and audit conformance.

Work Environment

• Remote opportunity within the United States.
• May require evening or weekend work.

Full-time hires are eligible to participate in the DXC benefit program.  DXC offers a comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits program which includes, but is not limited to, health, dental, and vision insurance coverage; employee wellness; life and disability insurance; a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, paid time off.

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