CICS Systems Programmer

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain CICS environments.
• Manage CICSplex infrastructure.
• Support transaction processing environments.
• Troubleshoot availability and performance issues.
• Support upgrades and migrations.
• Ensure resiliency and disaster recovery readiness.
• Integrate CICS with DB2, MQ, RACF, and z/OS services.

Job Qualifications

You're good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important – you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused – someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you're open and borderless – naturally inclusive in how you work with others.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 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 Technical and Professional Experience

• 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.