Cics System Programmer

CICS Systems Programmer

Location: India Remote
Experience: 5+ Years
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Mode: [Remote]

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced CICS Systems Programmer with strong hands-on experience in CICS Administration, CICS Upgrades, and CICS SMP/E in an IBM z/OS environment.

This is a CICS infrastructure/system programming role, not a CICS application development role. The successful candidate will be responsible for the installation, configuration, administration, maintenance, upgrade, performance, and production support of enterprise CICS environments.

The environment includes 1,000+ CICS regions across multiple LPARS, supporting mission-critical applications with high availability requirements.

MUST-HAVE EXPERIENCE

Candidates must have hands-on experience in all three areas below:

• CICS Administration CICS region management, configuration, resource definitions, startup/shutdown, CICS systems maintenance, and region support.
• CICS Upgrades – Hands-on experience performing or supporting CICS Transaction Server upgrades/migrations.
• CICS SMP/E – Hands-on experience with CICS installation and maintenance using SMP/E, including PTFs, fixes, APPLY/ACCEPT, and maintenance activities.

Candidates with only COBOL/CICS application development or application support experience will not be considered.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, maintain, and upgrade IBM CICS Transaction Server environments on z/OS.
• Perform CICS administration and region management across development, test, and production environments.
• Build, configure, clone, start, stop, recycle, and decommission CICS regions as required.
• Perform CICS upgrades, migrations, maintenance, RSU and PTF installation.
• Use SMP/E for CICS product installation, maintenance, fixes, and vendor updates.
• Define and maintain CICS resources using RDO/CSD and related CICS facilities.
• Configure and maintain CICS system parameters and support CICS region tailoring.
• Monitor CICS environments and investigate performance, availability, storage, transaction, and system issues.
• Troubleshoot complex CICS infrastructure/system problems and perform root-cause analysis.
• Support application development teams with CICS region and resource requirements.
• Monitor CICS health and performance using tools such as OMEGAMON, MainView, TMON, or CA SYSVIEW.
• Support integration of CICS with DB2, MQ, VSAM, IMS, and other z/OS subsystems.
• Participate in Disaster Recovery (DR) planning, testing, and execution.
• Support production-critical environments and participate in 24x7/on-call rotations.
• Work with IBM/vendor support teams for complex CICS issues, maintenance, dumps, traces, and problem resolution.
• Follow change management, incident management, and operational procedures for mission-critical environments.

Required Technical Skills

• CICS Transaction Server – Mandatory
• CICS Administration – Mandatory
• CICS Upgrade/Migration – Mandatory
• SMP/E – Mandatory
• IBM z/OS
• JCL, TSO/ISPF and z/OS utilities
• CICS region management and resource definition
• CICS performance monitoring and troubleshooting
• Experience with OMEGAMON / MainView / TMON / CA SYSVIEW
• Knowledge of DB2 and MQ
• Disaster Recovery and production support experience

Preferred Skills

• CICSPlex System Manager
• RACF/security concepts
• CICS system dumps, traces, and diagnostics
• CICS performance and capacity tuning
• IBM vendor support / PMR experience
• REXX or automation experience
• Experience supporting large-scale CICS environments

Ideal Candidate Profile

We are specifically looking for candidates from a CICS Systems Programming / CICS Administration / Mainframe Infrastructure background.

Strongly Relevant Titles

• CICS Systems Programmer
• CICS System Programmer
• CICS Administrator
• CICS Systems Administrator
• Mainframe Systems Programmer – CICS
• CICS Infrastructure Engineer
• CICS Technical Specialist

Not a Fit

Please do not apply if your experience is primarily in:

• COBOL application development
• CICS application programming
• BMS map development
• CICS application support only
• JCL/DB2 development
• Batch production support without CICS infrastructure experience

The role requires hands-on CICS infrastructure experience, specifically CICS Administration + CICS Upgrades + CICS SMP/E.

Work Environment

This is a mission-critical production environment supporting high-availability CICS infrastructure. The role requires strong troubleshooting skills, collaboration with application and infrastructure teams, and participation in 24x7/on-call support and planned maintenance activities.

If you have hands-on experience with CICS Administration, CICS Upgrades, and CICS SMP/E, we would like to hear from you.