Mainframe CICS Systems Administrator
Kyndryl · Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 7d ago
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About this role
Job Summary
What You Will Do
Your Future at Kyndryl
Who You Are
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.
As a System Administrator at Kyndryl, you ll solve complex problems and identify potential future issues across the spectrum of platforms and services. You ll be at the forefront of new technology and modernization, working with some of our biggest clients-which means some of the biggest in the world.
Success in this role means delivering a secure, highly available, and high-performing CICS environment that supports mission-critical business applications while driving modernization, automation, and operational excellence.
What You Will Do
- Install, configure, administer, and support IBM CICS Transaction Server environments across enterprise z/OS platforms.
- Perform CICS upgrades, migrations, maintenance, and lifecycle management while ensuring platform stability, availability, and security.
- Manage and support CICS regions, including AOR, TOR, FOR, COR, and complex CICSplex environments.
- Monitor, analyze, and optimize transaction performance, response times, CPU utilization, storage consumption, and workload distribution.
- Configure and maintain CICS resources, system definitions, startup procedures, CSD/BAS definitions, and operational infrastructure.
- Ensure high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery readiness through proactive capacity planning, recovery testing, and business continuity strategies.
- Administer and support CICS security controls in partnership with RACF and security teams, including transaction, program, command, resource, and surrogate security.
- Support enterprise connectivity and integration technologies such as MQ, EXCI, DPL, MRO, ISC, IPIC, Web Services, REST APIs, and TCP/IP.
- Serve as the highest level technical escalation point for critical incidents, performing root cause analysis, dump and trace analysis, and resolution of complex CICS abends and system issues.
- Collaborate with application development teams to support testing, deployments, modernization initiatives, and production support for business-critical applications.
- Lead strategic initiatives including CICS TS upgrades, API enablement, modernization programs, hybrid cloud integration, DevOps adoption, and observability enhancements.
- Develop and implement automation solutions using REXX, System Automation, NetView, and OPS/MVS to improve operational efficiency and reliability.
- Administer monitoring and observability platforms such as OMEGAMON, MainView, Dynatrace, Tivoli, SMF, and RMF to proactively identify and resolve issues.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, architectural guidance, and best practices to system programmers, engineers, and support teams.
- Ensure compliance with operational, security, audit, and service delivery standards while driving continuous improvement across the CICS platform.
Your Future at Kyndryl
Every position at Kyndryl offers a way forward to grow your career, from Junior System Administrator to Architect. We have opportunities for Cloud Hyperscalers that you t find anywhere else, including hands-on experience, learning opportunities, and the chance to certify in all four major platforms. One of the benefits of Kyndryl is that we work with clients in a variety of industries, from banking to retail. Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your opportunity here.
Who You Are
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
- 8+ years of relevant hands-on experience in Mainframe CICS System Programming or CICS infrastructure support.
- Good working knowledge of IBM CICS Transaction Server, including CICS regions, system configuration, administration, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting CICS production environments, including incident resolution, service requests, planned changes, and system maintenance activities.
- Working knowledge of CICS installation, maintenance, upgrades, or migration activities.
- Experience or exposure to CICS-related IBM and third-party products and monitoring tools such as IBM OMEGAMON for CICS, BMC MainView, ASG TMON/CICS, CICS Performance Analyzer, Abend-AID, Xpediter/CICS, InterTest, SymDump, or similar products.
- Understanding of CICS integration with technologies such as IBM MQ, Db2, VSAM, and other Mainframe application components.
- Working knowledge of CICS performance monitoring, transaction analysis, region health monitoring, and basic performance troubleshooting.
- Ability and willingness to participate in rotational on-call support, planned maintenance activities, and Disaster Recovery exercises as required.
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
- Exposure to CICS Web Services, API enablement, Java integration, or other CICS modernization technologies.
- Experience supporting CICS maintenance using SMP/E and applying IBM PTFs, APAR fixes, or related maintenance.
- Exposure to CICSplex System Manager, CICSPlex SM, Workload Management, or multi-region CICS environments.
- Experience with CICS performance analysis, workload balancing, capacity monitoring, or tuning activities.
- Ability to contribute effectively to projects, upgrades, migrations, maintenance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives as part of a broader technical team.
Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.
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