Mainframe CICS System Programmer - MCSPDP

Job Title: Mainframe CICS System Programmer
Location: Phoenix, AZ; Plano, TX; Charlotte, NC; Richmond, VA; Jacksonville, FL; Pennington, NJ; Chicago, IL
Job Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months (Contract to Hire)
Schedule: Hybrid | 3 days onsite, 2 days work from home
Pay Rate: $60 - $65/hr

Note: This job doesn't offer any benefits.

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Mainframe CICS System Programmer to administer, maintain, and optimize CICS Transaction Server environments, ensuring system performance, availability, and operational stability.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in mainframe CICS administration or systems programming.

• Experience installing, upgrading, and maintaining CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) environments.

• Experience applying program temporary fixes (PTFs), managing version upgrades, and performing regression validation.

• Experience configuring and maintaining CICS regions, including production, test, and disaster recovery environments.

• Knowledge of startup parameters and System Initialization Tables (DFHSIT).

• Experience monitoring and tuning transaction performance and system health.

• Familiarity with performance monitoring tools such as OMEGAMON, MainView, and TMON.

• Ability to analyze transaction response times, CPU utilization, and storage usage.

• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise mainframe environments.

• Familiarity with CICS modernization and system performance improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Install, upgrade, and maintain CICS Transaction Server environments.

• Apply PTFs, manage version upgrades, and perform regression testing to validate system stability.

• Configure and maintain CICS regions across production, test, and disaster recovery environments.

• Maintain startup parameters and DFHSIT configurations.

• Monitor CICS transaction performance and overall system health using OMEGAMON, MainView, TMON, or similar tools.

• Analyze transaction response times, CPU utilization, and storage consumption.

• Perform performance tuning to identify and eliminate system bottlenecks.

• Troubleshoot CICS-related issues and support system availability and operational stability.