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.