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
• Solid 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.
• Robust 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
• Robust 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.

📌 Cics / Mq On Z/os Infrastructure Lead Melbourne
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Melbourne