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# Senior Lead, Systems Administrations CICS

- **Company:** Kyndryl, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $100,080.0 - $190,080.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Customer Information Control System (CICS), COBOL (Programming Language), IBM DB2, Software Debugging, Monitoring of Systems, Performance Tuning, IBM Resource Access Control Facility, Subsystems, Z/OS
- **Published:** June 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/A29B9D6E7CFD4107823D77A206438812/job/

## About the Role

You're good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important - you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused - someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you're open and borderless - naturally inclusive in how you work with others.

## Description

* Provide infrastructure support for CICS environments across multiple systems and platforms
 * Maintain availability, stability, and performance of CICS subsystems
 * Support production, development, and test environments

Installation, Maintenance & Upgrades

 * Install, configure, and upgrade CICS versions and related IBM components
 * Apply maintenance and patches to keep systems at supported levels
 * Evaluate new releases and implement enhancements

Performance & Capacity Management

 * Perform performance tuning and workload balancing
 * Monitor system health and resolve bottlenecks
 * Ensure optimal resource utilization

Problem Management & Troubleshooting

 * Diagnose and resolve system and application issues
 * Utilize debugging and monitoring tools independently
 * Engage IBM/ISV support when required

Solution Design & Technical Support

 * Provide technical expertise on CICS architecture and product capabilities
 * Assist in designing solutions aligned with client/application requirements
 * Support integration with subsystems (e.g., MQ, z/OS Connect, RACF, and DB2)

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

*COBOL

 * Assembler

 * RACF configuration


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