The mainframe technology is one of the most reliable in the World. Now in the Cloud era IBM offers modernization of the applications for the hybrid clouds, leveraging a marriage stability of mainframe with accessibility of the cloud.
Have you ever thought about assisting IT development teams to fight disruption and innovate faster, using agile practices to deliver hybrid applications via an automated pipeline?
As a #CICS-MQ Delivery Consultant, you will learn and experience how we apply technical expertise to ensure world-class delivery using consultative skills such as problem-solving / hypothesis-based methodologies, communication, and service orientation skills. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, Global Delivery Center #GDC you will be client focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges.?
To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' in this role may include, but not be limited to…Working under general supervision you will be understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that help them transform mission-critical IBM Z applications for hybrid cloud environments with stability, security, and agility.
Participating in planning, installing, configuring, maintaining, verifying, and administering, CICS & MQ on z/OS
working closely with various stakeholders to ensure the efficient functioning of CMOD and to support the organization's document and content management needs.
Be a hands-on person and deliver and Involve in product installation/ configurations, troubleshooting (performance, 3rd party integrations, security)
Based on customer requirements, deliver the deployment
System Administration: Install, configure, and maintain IBM Content Manager OnDemand software. Manage user access, security, and permissions within the CICS/CICSPlex,
Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize the performance of the CICS/PLEX. Diagnose and resolve performance-related issues.
Maintenance and Upgrades: Perform routine system maintenance tasks, including backups and system updates. Plan and execute upgrades to newer versions of CICS & MQ and related subsystems.
Create and maintain CICS regions used by the applications including Assembler and Cobol programs
Administer the CICS regions according to application requirements (create new objects: transactions, tclass, programs)
Create and maintain the CICS monitoring infrastructure (OMEGAMON, System Automation feeds, etc.)
Provide and analyze SMF statistics on usage to various parties (eg. developers, managers, Operational Security Department)
Investigate and resolve problems in CICS and related areas
Investigation and evaluation of new products in the area (eg. the CICS Explorer)
Control and investigate CICS CPU usage
Provide support to the application programming groups including handling inquiry and new resource, requests, coding design questions, assist in resolving issues and abends
MQ part:
Control and investigate MQ CPU usage
Control and investigate MQ queues usage
Control and investigate Space usage
Deliver and analyze SMF statistics
Define MQ objects (channels, queues, aliases, etc.)
Maintain and adapt according to application growth (eg. new page sets, etc.)
Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team.
Participating in technical solution workshops
Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you'll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business.?
Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.