CICS System Programmer (Mainframe)

N Consulting Limited; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in technology services is seeking a CICS System Programmer with over 10 years of experience to join their hybrid team. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing the bank’s mainframe systems, ensuring efficiency and resilience. This role emphasizes collaboration across teams, problem solving, and technical support, making it crucial for operational success in a high-availability environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience installing/customizing mainframe CICS software.
• 5+ years experience with CICSplex and CICS Explorer.
• Experience with automation tools and high availability environments.

Responsibilities

• Upgrade and maintain CICS mainframe systems.
• Provide 24/7 technical support to prevent service outages.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance system performance.

Skills

Mainframe Software Upgrades

Technical Support

Performance Analysis

Collaboration

Problem Determination

Tools

CICS

CICSplex

Omegamon

RACF

z/OS

Job description

Role – CICS System Programmer (Mainframe) Location : UK/ Denmark Contract Role Work Mode : Hybrid Mode Experience : 10+ Years Job Description: As a CICS System Programmer, candidate will be part of a Global team responsible for building, configuring,and maintaining the Bank’s mainframe systems availability, efficiency, and resilience, underpinned by the architectural principle of cloned infrastructure, system configurations, applications. Key Responsibilities - Perform mainframe CICS software upgrades coupled with administration and tuning to support mainframe environments. Current version is CICS 5.6. Provide high degree of technical support (24*7) to reduce the likelihood of significant service outage or disaster. Analyse new versions of CICS for functionality improving systems performance and reduce cost. Tracking and analyzing performance and resource utilization of CICS systems Recommend changes, upgrades, and enhancements based on the technical analysis. Perform problem diagnostics and resolutions as well. Participate in incident and problem management activities related to applications and CICS. Encourage and ensure collaboration across functional users and vendors to provide guidance and manage different tasks with a “can-do” attitude. Execute project and internal initiative responsibilities as assigned or delegated. Walking ahead by being enthusiastic and responsible for strengthening and developing system skills. Develop and maintain operational documentation, best practices, and run books for the operational platform. Upskill junior systems programmers. Have 10+ years of experience of installing and/or customizing mainframe CICS software in Large Data sharing environments. Have 5+ years of experience with CICSplex and CICS Explorer to manage CICS systems. Solid understanding of resource definitions and its dependencies. CF structures and its practical use in a business environment. Experience with Omegamon and Fault Analyzer along with basic dump analysis skills on IPCS. Experience in cloning and sunsetting CICS regions. Basic understanding of CICS security with RACF. Exposure to working with SMF 110 records and its practical application in terms of problem determination. Strong problem determination skills in both system and application areas Proficient in working with high availability environment along with alignment to process (ITIL) Experience working with and maintaining other vendor tools for CICS as well as exposure to common z/OS tools like SDSF RMF etc. Experience with automating CICS events via CICSplex RTA and/or system automation tools on z/OS.