CICS Infrastructure Lead

We are seeking an experienced CICS Infrastructure Lead to manage and support enterprise mainframe CICS environments. The successful candidate will bring strong hands-on CICS systems programming expertise, along with experience in installation, upgrades, performance tuning, troubleshooting and production support.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead the administration, support and maintenance of IBM CICS Transaction Server environments.
• Perform CICS installation, configuration, upgrades, patching and version migrations.
• Manage CICS regions, resource definitions, system parameters and associated infrastructure components.
• Monitor and tune CICS performance, availability and capacity.
• Troubleshoot complex CICS incidents, abends and production issues.
• Support interfaces and integration across CICS, DB2, MQ, VSAM, RACF and z/OS environments.
• Lead technical troubleshooting and provide guidance to mainframe infrastructure teams.
• Manage changes, releases and implementation activities within controlled production environments.
• Develop and maintain operational procedures, technical documentation and automation where appropriate.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure and operations teams to ensure platform stability and availability.

• Strong hands-on experience with CICS infrastructure / CICS systems programming.
• Extensive knowledge of IBM CICS Transaction Server and z/OS.
• Experience with CICS region configuration, administration, monitoring and performance tuning.
• Good understanding of DB2, IBM MQ, VSAM, RACF and mainframe networking concepts.
• Strong production support and problem-management experience.
• Experience managing CICS upgrades, maintenance and migration activities.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Previous experience in a Lead, Senior CICS Systems Programmer or Mainframe Infrastructure position.
• Strong stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills.