Key skills
CICS Systems Programmingz/OS SystemsCICS InstallationConfigurationCICS Performance TuningCICS Capacity PlanningDisaster Recovery StrategiesHigh AvailabilitySMP/EREXXJCLAnsibleMQDB2IMSAPI EnablementSOAP-to-REST ModernizationRACFTLSCertificatesMainframe NetworkingRoot Cause AnalysisSenior-level GuidanceProblem DeterminationPythonCOBOLLeadershipChange Management
About this role
Allstate is a company that has been protecting families and their belongings for over 90 years. They are seeking a Senior CICS Infrastructure Solutions Engineer to lead, support, and modernize enterprise CICS environments, focusing on stability, performance, and scalability of mission-critical transaction systems.
Responsibilities:
- Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain CICS/TS across multiple LPARs and environments (DEV/TEST/QA/PROD)
- Design and manage CICS regions, TORs, AORs, FORs, and associated coupling facility structures
- Own high availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery strategies for CICS environments
- Perform CICS capacity planning, performance tuning, and MIPS optimization
- Troubleshoot complex CICS issues including storage violations, Abend analysis, region hangs, and performance degradation
- Integrate CICS with z/OS Connect, MQ, DB2, IMS, and distributed platforms
- Support API enablement, SOAP-to-REST modernization, and transaction exposure for digital consumers
- Ensure secure connectivity using RACF, TLS, certificates, and network controls
- Drive automation using SMP/E, REXX, JCL, Ansible, or vendor tooling
- Reduce technical debt through proactive upgrades, feature enablement, and decommissioning of unused components
- Partner with application teams to modernize legacy interfaces while preserving system integrity
- Provide senior-level guidance to application teams, operations, and architecture groups
- Participate in change management, incident reviews, root cause analysis, and audit support
- Create and maintain runbooks, standards, and infrastructure documentation
- Act as a technical mentor for junior engineers and offshore/onshore partners
Requirements:
- A minimum of 5 years CICS Systems Programming experience in large-scale enterprise environments including installation, maintenance and configuration of the product
- Availability for on-call support the successful candidate will be part of the escalation path for out-of-hours on-call support
- A minimum of 5 years' experience with z/OS systems, (JES, SMF, WLM, SMP/E etc.) Performance tuning and problem determination
- Prior leadership / team leader experience
- Experience of configuring z/OS Connect
- Familiarity with CPSM
- Exposure to MQ, z/OS Connect, and mainframe networking concepts
- Some experience in Programming/Scripting tools such as COBOL, REXX, Python etc
- Exposure supporting 24x7, high-volume transaction systems