CICS Engineer - FS - Glasgow (Remote) - Inside IR35
Day Rate - £479
Duration - 12 months
Harvey Nash's FS Client are hiring a CICS engineer, you will support many functions in which CICS and MQ support our connection and processing for the applications sitting on the Mainframe. We have a team with skills on one or both of CICS and MQ enabling us to support our customers.
Responsibilities
- Upgrading Test and Live CICS environment.
- Working with Change and Project Management to plan and deliver upgrade.
- Driving enhancements to the security and resiliency of our CICS environments.
- Identifying, quantifying and communicating technical risks.
- Implementing industry best practice and innovation within our route to live cycle.
- Exploring and testing efficiencies within the CICS set up.
- Working with stakeholders to fix any issues and incidents that arise.
Experience Required
- A sound understanding of the principles of resilience, operability and security, and how they relate to CICS.
- Great experience of planning, preparing and delivering upgrades.
- A desire and aptitude to continually grow your own knowledge and skills, and help others do the same.
- A broad understanding of surrounding IT infrastructure: hardware, networking, data, and middleware.
- An aptitude to quickly assimilate and understand complexity under pressure to diagnose and remediate technical issues.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-changing environment.
Desirable Skills
- A good working knowledge of the operation of Core Banking platforms.
- MQ administration experience, with knowledge of clustering and security.
- Recent experience of core modernisation and managing digital demands on CICS infrastructure.
