Summary: The CICS Engineer role involves supporting the CICS and MQ environments for applications on the Mainframe within a financial services context. The position requires upgrading both test and live environments, enhancing security and resiliency, and collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues. The role is remote and classified as inside IR35, with a day rate of £479. The contract duration is 12 months.

Key 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.

Key Skills:

• 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.
• 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.

Salary (Rate): £479

City: Glasgow

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT