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The IBM CICS Transaction Processor is a middleware product that processes vast numbers of transactions very quickly, by running mission-critical applications, for workloads such as banking transactions and credit card processing. The CPU usage for these workloads is critical as IBM’s customers have business targets that the transactions must achieve in order to manage costs. As a Performance Specialist, working on CICS, you will be developing and executing high volume workloads, analyzing results and identifying code changes to ensure CICS does not degrade from release to release. You will also be working directly with customers to assist them with getting the best performance from their applications and assisting these customers with their application performance issues.
- 9-14 years of experience in developing applications on the z/OS platform
- Z/OS systems programming skills on products such as CICS, RACF, Db2, MQ, IMS.
- Experience of analysing system bottlenecks and proposing solutions
- Experience with performance testing tools and methodologies
- Strong debugging skills to enable you to identify and resolve performance issues.
- Strong numerical skills, and confident when handling large tables of figures and/or spreadsheet formulae
- Experience of developing and maintaining performance testing frameworks
- Strong communication skills to provide performance optimization advice and guidance to the development team and IBM customers
- Open to cross-geo collaboration
- Java and/or scripting language programming skills
- Cobol and/or Assembler skills
- Experience in CICS performance tuning
- A good understanding of CICS applications and architectures within the z/OS environment
- Experience of developing and maintaining performance testing frameworks