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The Judge Group

The Judge Group

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Mainframe CICS Systems & MQ Admin

Anywhere
Full-time
Posted 2/26/2026
Verified Source
Key Skills:
IBM MQ
CICS TS
Mainframe z/OS
JCL
COBOL

Compensation

Salary Range

$90000K-100000K a year

Responsibilities

Administer and maintain IBM MQ and CICS environments including installation, upgrades, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

Requirements

Experience with IBM MQ, CICS, mainframe environments, and related tools for message processing and system monitoring.

Full Description

Please send resumes to mxavier@judge.com. You must be able to accept w2 employment without sponsorship now or in the future. Mainframe CICS & MQ Admin ? Experience in IBM MQ product installation, upgrades, maintenance, configurations and troubleshooting. ? Expertise in administrating, alert setup and monitoring the message process using tools like MQ explorer, Omegamon for MQ and TEPS. ? Design the MQ architecture pattern for the message processing flow as per the new application requirement ? Defining the MQ objects queues, channel, process definition, Topic, etc . ? Skilled at executing IBM MQ utilities to handle the MQ queue messages (backup, deleting a particular records etc..) ? Maintain and adopt the new pagesets & bufferpool according to the application growth in MQ ? Knowledge on the MQ queue sharing and MQ clustering to handle the queue managers and its components. ? Strong knowledge on MQ queue manager creation/migration and daily health check and dead letter queue process automation ? Good understanding of messaging interfaces and connections to the IBM other products (such as CICS, DB2, IMS..) and third party application servers. ? Perform MQ online monitoring, investigate MQ CPU usage using SMF statistics analyze ? CICS TS v5.x, v6.x, CICSPlex - Install, Upgrade, Patch, Configure and RSU Maintenance (Including CPSM support) ? Understanding of a CICS MRO environment ? Set traces (Aux and GTF) ? ability to set traces to aid vendors in problem management and determination. ? CICS shutdown statistics ? be able to produce and interpret shutdown stats to aid in problem determination and growth projections. ? Understanding of the CICS dynamic storage areas and how to manipulate for short on storage situations or to accommodate future growth of applications. ? Create both transaction and system dumps (and port to vendors for analysis) ? RDO (resource definition online) ? must be able to create any resource needed on CICS (e.g transactions, programs, files, transient data queue, LSR groups, etc) ? Web Services ? creating and supporting of web services within CICS ? Install and maintain Tivoli/Omegamon products, Broadcom Intertest/Symdump used to debug CICS programs, to format transaction dumps, FileAid, Splunk ? SDS ? CAFC (CICS application file control) ? install product and use for control of files, application lists and group lists. ? Create new or modify existing CICS regions in support of new applications or CICS architecture re-engineering initiatives. ? Support Mainframe Message Transfer & Connectivity environments z/OS CONNECT ? Performance and Tuning in a large Z/OS Environment ?< span style="white-space:pre"> Nice to have knowledge with MQSeries and MQClients on distributed platforms. ? Nice to have knowledge Mainframe zOS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF and COBOL. ? IBM and ISV Vendor Coordination for Ticketing Incidents/Problems, SW downloads, Escalations ? Provide 24x7 after hours on-call support as required for products supported by the team By providing your phone number, you consent to: (1) receive automated text messages and calls from the Judge Group, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively "Judge") to such phone number regarding job opportunities, your job application, and for other related purposes. Message & data rates apply and message frequency may vary. Consistent with Judge's Privacy Policy, information obtained from your consent will not be shared with third parties for marketing/promotional purposes. Reply STOP to opt out of receiving telephone calls and text messages from Judge and HELP for help.

This job posting was last updated on 2/26/2026

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