MainFrame CICS Specialist

About the role

Kyndryl runs and reimagines mission-critical technology systems for leading businesses. As a Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer in Petah Tikva, you will install, configure, maintain and optimize IBM CICS environments on z/OS systems, keeping them stable, performant and resilient for customers' core operations. You will work with application developers, system programmers and infrastructure teams on deployments and modernization.

Key responsibilities

• Install, configure, maintain and support IBM CICS environments on z/OS
• Monitor CICS regions for high availability, stability and performance
• Triage and resolve CICS incidents and production disruptions
• Analyze performance, plan capacity and tune systems
• Analyze logs, dumps and traces to find root causes
• Execute upgrades, maintenance, migrations and application deployments
• Work with developers and infrastructure teams and keep technical documentation and security compliance

Required profile

• 10+ years of hands-on experience supporting and administering IBM CICS environments
• In-depth knowledge of IBM z/OS architecture and principles
• Hands-on CICS TS administration, configuration and support
• Customer-focused, growth mindset and inclusive approach to working with others

Required skills

• JCL, TSO/ISPF and SDSF
• CICS performance tuning, dump reading, trace interpretation and problem determination
• VTAM and TCP/IP
• Preferred: DB2, IMS or IBM MQ; mainframe modernization, automation or hybrid cloud experience; mainframe disaster recovery background