ADABAS Operations and Engineering DBA at Remote

• Adadbas is tough to find, from manager, "Mainframe engineers can excel in this role if they have worked with operating system and Tools (ISPF, TSO, SDSF, JCL)"
• DB2 experience will work
• Production support, supporting trading systems and back end systems (infrastructure team supporting business systems)
• Team environment

ADABAS Operations and Engineering DBA:

• The ADABAS Operations and Engineering DBA will work in a team to provide steadfast reliability of the ADABAS mainframe environment.
• In addition to the ADABAS database, the group currently installs and supports 18 products from vendor Software AG.
• In addition, the team engages with a wide variety of client applications including non-mainframe-based applications accessing the Enterprise Z platform via OBDC/JDBC, including IBMs Data Virtualization Manager and EntireX.

Responsibilities Include:

• Classic mainframe support
• Monitor automation messages for database exception conditions
• Analyze application and database performance problems
• Initiates a shift turnover for issues or problems including any outstanding tickets, mails, abends, calls or messages that are still being worked on are communicated or handed over
• Responsible for the creation, scheduling, and support of database backup and maintenance processes
• Implement database turnover requests for all APG groups and application for all environments
• Perform verification for database maintenance upgrades
• Execute Weekend verification involving the running of the IVP and following up on outstanding reorgs, utilities, or replication tasks
• Provide support and assistance for the database engineering groups for Weekend work
• Support efforts for the database Performance Lab
• Preparing for, coordinating, writing up and communicating the summary of the weekend work
• Provide level one and level two support on database systems and address spaces
• Implement changes to database subsystem variables
• Monitor and read and respond to incoming mail and newsgroups relating to problems and questions
• Providing level one and level two support of the utility suite of applications
• Following the DTS procedures and policies for escalation and notification
• Escalation to next Tier and/or management
• Register events from clients into tracking tools
• Performance weekend verification after infrastructure upgrades and system IPLs
• Build tools to automate reporting, monitoring and improving platform stability
• Desired Solid familiarity with z/OS IBM mainframe, IBM s z/OS
• Operating system and Tools (ISPF, TSO, SDSF, JCL)
• ADABAS database on mainframe (level 8.x.x)
• NATURAL language on mainframe (level 9.x.x) FTP, Rexx Agile development, SDLC, DevOps best practices
• Task Management using JIRA Weekend shift and on call rotation required.
• Assets Adabas Cluster Services
• Adabas Parallel Services
• Adabas Replication Services
• Adabas Delta Save
• Adabas Cache
• Adabas Vista/Coordinator/Fast Path DB2 on mainframe
• Networking protocols - TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP. Port Security administration CA Sysview, ICAMS, Omegamon.
• Assembler programming

Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements:

• University Degree (B.S.) and at least 7 to 10 years technical experience
• Experience with Project Management and Agile preferred
• Data analysis and manipulation
• Scripting/coding experience a plus