Sr Business Analyst

Job Description:
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Abend-Aid CICS

Job Description/ Responsibilities

• Installation, maintenance, and administration of CICS software. Manage deployments of maintenance releases, red-alerts, and emergency maintenance.

• Incident Management / Problem Management by performing problem analysis and resolution implementation

• Conduct software proof of concept and product evaluations

• Research emerging technology and industry practices, and develop and maintain Roadmaps

• Maintain standards and best practices documentation

• Support highly available, sysplexed CICS environments on zSeries.

• Support for application development and testing, and for the analysis and resolution of problems with CICS product sets, in both production and non-production environments

• Ability to work with other data center groups to develop and implement processes that enhance the support infrastructure for CICS product set, including Automation, Change Management, operational procedures

• Collaborate with the CICS Production Support team on problem and incident management, disaster recovery, sustained resiliency, LOB testing events, and capacity planning requirements as needed.

• Drive creation and support scripted solutions for standard processes

• Drive creation and support for automated solutions for the environment

• Drive innovation - research of new features and functionality available in our software/hardware and prepare a plan for rolling these innovations
Technical Skillset:
- Excellent skills on CICS administration which include CICS and its product administration
- Experience in CICS version upgrades/migration
- Applying patches to CICS software, Hostbridge
- CICS ISVs upgrades and maintenance
- Resource definition Online and batch mode
- CICS region build
- Knowledge on CICSPlex concepts (mandatory)
- Configuration of CICS initialization parameters
- Troubleshooting and resolving system related abends and issues
- Identifying patches that need to be installed, and having them installed
- Security administration for CICS
- Performance monitoring and tuning
- CICS intercommunication setup and maintenance
- 24 7 support
- Assist in application team on CICS specific issues

Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.