Job#: 3032865 Job Description: DataStage Platform Support EngineerEmployment Type: Contract
Duration: Through November 2026 to start
Location: Onsite in Cincinnati, OH - 3 days/week (Mon, Tues, Thurs)
Schedule: 3:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern after 2-3 week onboarding
About the RoleThis role supports a temporary capacity surge and backlog within the DataStage environment. The focus is on incident response, platform health, job optimization, and stability across a large-scale DataStage footprint. Work includes both platform administration and some development.
What You'll Do- Monitor DataStage platform health, performance, and stability
- Respond to incidents and job failures; troubleshoot and remediate issues
- Identify jobs consuming excessive resources or not optimized
- Review job setup, high-level metadata, and design in the DS Ops Console
- Validate that developers are using appropriate DataStage stages and best practices
- Perform DataStage admin tasks and some ETL/data engineering development
- Analyze results and trends; document findings using Excel or Power BI
- Support a high-volume environment:
- 30,000+ unique jobs
- 70,000 daily job runs
- Work heavily within Linux systems
- Quantify work and platform insights using Power BI
Top Must-Have Skills- DataStage 11.7
- DataStage administration
- DataStage development (ETL / data engineering)
- Ability to analyze job design and metadata
- Strong Linux experience
- Ability to troubleshoot and optimize inefficient jobs
- Understanding of DataStage best practices
- Power BI (or Excel) for reporting and trend analysis
Ideal Candidate Profile- Experience supporting large-scale DataStage environments
- Strong troubleshooting and optimization skills
- Proactive - identifies issues and next steps without waiting for direction
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
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