## Key Responsibilities
- Install, upgrade, and maintain CICS Transaction Server regions, CICS Transaction Gateway, CICSPlex SM, and related middleware components.
- Install, upgrade, and maintain IBM MQ for z/OS, including queue manager configuration, queue-sharing groups, IPIC, MRO and clustering.
- Lead migration projects between vendor utilities supporting CICS/MQ operations (e.g., CA DADS Plus to SAS CAFC or IBM CBAC or MacKinney Batch/CICS, or equivalent abend/dump/file analysis tool transitions).
- Enable and support integration of CICS/MQ with Db2/IMS and zOS Connect and modern toolchains — CICS TS APIs, Liberty for z/OS, containerized workloads, and API management layers.
- Design and implement high-availability and disaster recovery topologies for CICS (multi-region operation, VSAM RLS) and MQ (queue-sharing groups, clustering, disaster recovery replication).
- Perform CICS/MQ performance tuning, capacity monitoring, and abend/dump analysis using industry-standard diagnostic tools.
- Perform Proof-of-concept (POC) on Sandbox LPAR to build & test the use-cases using different vendor products which are found promising and establish the documentation proof of benefits realization after POC completion.
- Coordinate with application development and DevOps teams to support modernization initiatives touching CICS/MQ workloads.