Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer

Role & responsibilities:

• Strong experience in IBM CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) administration, including CICSPlex SM, CICS region management, and transaction processing.
• Expertise in CICS performance tuning, recovery management, diagnostics, dump analysis, and problem determination.
• Experience integrating CICS with IBM MQ, DB2, RACF, and z/OS subsystems.
• Knowledge of high-availability, workload management, and mission-critical transaction processing environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Server 2016/2019, VMware ESX, and public/private cloud environments, including on-premises to cloud migrations.

Preferred candidate profile:

• Experience with CICSPlex SM, CICS upgrades, migrations, maintenance, and release management.
• Knowledge of OMEGAMON for CICS, CICS Explorer, JCL, SMP/E, and REXX.
• Familiarity with Parallel Sysplex, workload balancing, disaster recovery, and resilience architectures.
• Understanding of ITIL Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes.
• Experience with automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), vulnerability management, Active Directory, and ADFS.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.