Job Title: Db2 Mainframe Administrator
Job Location: Remote
Job Duration: 8 Months + possible extension
Job Description
Contingent worker to provide day to day operation and support in the Mainframe Adabas and/or DB2 database platforms. Understand mainframe operation in the IBM z/OS platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Adabas, Natural DB2 Database Administration, implementation, and maintenance
- Enforce environment standards like object naming, security, backup and recovery and database administration
- Strong working knowledge of the Adabas and DB2 Utility suite
- Ensure 24/7 availability and performance of application databases, including on-call support
- Resolve database performance, capacity and other database related issues
- Manage database backup and recovery
- Prepare, maintain and execute disaster recovery plans
- Troubleshoot application database issues
- Oversee, and optimize all database maintenance (i.e. update statistics, etc) and backup processes
- Understanding of ITIL Change/Incident management
Required & Preferred Skills
- Minimum 3 years of experience in supporting/administering DB2 in z/OS, DB2 v12 or greater
- Experience with z/OS operating system
- Knowledge of VSAM, EntireX, JCL, CICS, TSO, ISPF, REXX, IBM Mainframe Utilities and DB2 Admin Tool
- Understanding of RACF security tool
- Proficiency in Office 365 and text editors, JIRA
- Ability to learn quickly on the job, open to learn different systems and data platforms
- Strong communication skills and experience in customer interaction in requirements gathering
- Skills in writing scripts to automate and schedule the jobs (Reorg, Runstats, Modify, Image copy, Restore, Load/ Unload, Repair etc)