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Manager/Senior Manager - Mainframe CICS Engineer - ETS - Bengaluru
Company Profile
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit (link removed).
Enterprise Technology & Services
Enterprise Technology & Services (ETS) delivers shared technology services for Morgan Stanley supporting all business applications and end users. ETS provides capabilities for all stages of Morgan Stanley s software development lifecycle, enabling productive coding, functional and integration testing, application releases, and ongoing monitoring and support for over 3,000 production applications. ETS also delivers all workplace technologies (desktop, mobile, voice, video, productivity, intranet/internet) in integrated configurations that boost the personal productivity of employees. Application and end user functions are delivered on a scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure composed of seamlessly integrated datacentre, network, compute, cloud, storage, and database functions.
Job Profile
Mainframe Computing (MC) is a technology enabler for the business by providing a strong, resilient, and stable platform to host and enable business innovation/growth in our lines of business and global locations. MC consists of experienced administration, operations and engineering staff required to support the platform. In addition to flexible hours, the Firm enables its staff to work remotely. The mainframe engineers work with the latest hardware and software technologies. The IBM z platform and the mainframe disk and tape technologies are frequently refreshed across our datacentres.
Mainframe CICS Engineer:
The Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer is responsible for all phases of CICS engineering, system, and software maintenance, and CICS related operation functions. The candidate must be comfortable working with CICS (and MQ) in a 24x7 large scale Sysplex and CICSPlex environment and must be able to interface with application developers and operations teams. The CICS engineer should have strong analytical, organizational and communication skills, as well as in-depth knowledge in CICS performance & tuning, debugging and dump analysis. On-call support and maintenance outside of normal working hours are needed to support the CICS environment and to resolve issues.
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Skill Set
Skills Required:
- Knowledge of all CICS parameters that control performance in a CICSPlex environment.
- Knowledge of SMP/E, software upgrade and maintenance
- Knowledge of CICS SMF record structure and the CICS Performance Analyzer tool to gather statistics necessary to tune CICS regions
- Experience with CICSPlex SM implementation & customization, dynamic transaction routing, etc.
- Knowledge of the CICS resource definitions that pertain to CICS region performance
- Ability to perform problem determination, dump analysis and performance tuning
- Experienced with the CICS monitoring tools such as Sysview for CICS.
- Knowledge of Cobol to support application developers
- Experience with Mainframe Websphere MQ
- Good oral/written communication skills
Skills desired:
- Assembler and COBOL coding and knowledge of CICS Exits
- Web application support in a CICS TS V5 environment
- Understanding of zOS facilities such as: APF, Linklist, VSAM, LPA, Coupling Facility
- Good Project Management skills
- Knowledge of the CICS Interdependency Analyzer tool
- Working knowledge of the zOS & CICS Explorer
- Knowledge of Natural language & Adabas
- Prior Application programming experience a plus.
Qualifications/Criterion
Master s Degree or Bachelor s Degree with equivalent combination of professional training and experience.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunities employer. We work to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximise their full potential. Our skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the global communities in which we operate and who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. Our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion is evident through our constant focus on recruiting, developing, and advancing individuals based on their skills and talents.
Employement Category:
Employement Type: Full time
Industry: BFSI
Role Category: General / Other Software
Functional Area: Not Applicable
Role/Responsibilies: Manager/Senior Manager - Mainframe CICS
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