Summary: The CICS Engineer role involves supporting the CICS and MQ functions that facilitate application processing on the Mainframe for a financial services client. The position requires upgrading 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: UK

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT