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.
- Robust 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.

📌 CICS / MQ on z/OS Infrastructure Lead (Melbourne)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Melbourne