Onsite Mainframe CICS Admin - Phoenix Growth

Kyndryl; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 62,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Medical & dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Paid time off

Paid leave

Job summary

Kyndryl in Phoenix, AZ is seeking a Mainframe CICS System Administrator to solve complex problems and modernize mission-critical systems, with onsite presence three days a week. You will work with large clients, drive CICS administration, performance monitoring, and tuning across production, test, and DR environments.

You will contribute to on-call rotations, collaborate with diverse teams, and grow toward architect-level paths. Relocation could be considered for the right candidate.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in Mainframe CICS.
• Experience in CICS System Administration environment with work management, user management, journal management and performance management.
• Experience in CICS Transaction Server, related ISV products.
• Capable of Upgrading/Installing and Migrating CICS Transaction servers.
• Capable of Upgrading /Installing and supporting IBM & ISV related Products Proficient in technologies like P2V, V2V and P2P migrations.
• Proven experience on the CICS functionality and architecture.
• Basic Knowledge on z/OS, Unix System Services, SMP/E, REXX, Java, VSAM, Third party products.

Responsibilities

• Install, upgrade, and maintain CICS TS environments.
• Apply patches (PTFs), manage version upgrades, and perform regression validation.
• Configure and maintain CICS regions (production, test, DR).
• Maintain startup parameters and system initialization tables (DFHSIT).
• Monitor transaction performance and system health using tools such as OMEGAMON/MainView/TMON.
• Analyze transaction response times, CPU utilization, and storage usage.
• Perform tuning to eliminate bottlenecks.

Skills

CICS

Mainframe Admin

Performance Monitoring

Patching & Upgrades

On-call Rotation

Team Collaboration

OCM Tools

Tools

OMEGAMON

MainView

TMON

Job description

Kyndryl in Phoenix, AZ is seeking a Mainframe CICS System Administrator to solve complex problems and modernize mission-critical systems, with onsite presence three days a week. You will work with large clients, drive CICS administration, performance monitoring, and tuning across production, test, and DR environments.

You will contribute to on-call rotations, collaborate with diverse teams, and grow toward architect-level paths. Relocation could be considered for the right candidate.