Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
No Travel Required
Skills
Agile
CICS
CLIST
COBOL
Data Mining
Data Warehouse
Database
Database Administration
Database Design
Debugging
DevOps
Disaster Recovery
ERwin
Easytrieve
Entity Relationship Model
Extract
Transform
Load
IBM
IBM DB2
IBM IMS
IBM Utilities
ISPF
JCL
Microsoft Windows
RDBMS
Recovery
Regulatory Compliance
Rexx
SQL
Scripting
Stored Procedures
TSO
Unix
z/OS
Job Details
Database Administrator
Renton, WA (Onsite)
Long Term
Job Functions/Responsibilities
- Experience in a complex IBM z/OS DB2 and IMS database environment.
- Assist developers with debugging and tuning of CICS and batch DB2/IMS programs.
- Design, implement, and support DB2/IMS databases in online transaction and batch environments.
- Ability to tune DB2 queries using EXPLAIN.
- Generate scripts to migrate DB2 schema changes between environments using IBM DB2 admin tools.
- Familiar with DevOps methodology to automate database deployment.
- Experience with DB2 native SQL procedures.
- Good understanding of relational data modeling including physical database design using ERWin data modeler or other similar tool.
- Provide database support estimate for new projects.
- Provide on-going database support for Agile projects.
- Adhere to and enforce database standards.
- Introduce and deploy new database features.
- Ensure security is integrated into all data solutions to meet compliance standards.
- Perform onsite database recovery/restore as required.
- Experience with Disaster Recovery procedure and validation.
- Support DB2/IMS database upgrades.
- Design, develop, and migrate IMS databases to DB2.
- Assist Data Engineer in moving data from IMS/DB2 to distributed systems using an ETL tool, such as Qlik Replicate.
Qualifications
- 8+ years relevant experience as a DB2 DBA in a z/OS environment using IBM utilities, including experience with z/OS JCL, REXX/CLIST, evaluating dump output, and TSO/ISPF is required.
- IMS DBA experience in a CICS / DBCTL environment is required.
- Proven database design and development experience in a z/OS and enterprise COBOL environment is required (preferably including DB2, IMS/DB and CICS).
- Working knowledge in both Unix and windows platforms including cross-platform data access is desirable.
- Experience with DB2 stored procedures required.
- ISPW, ERwin, EZTRIEVE are all pluses.
- Experience with Qlik Replicate is a plus.
- Expertise with SQL and relational database systems.
- Knowledge of data warehousing concepts.
- Knowledge of data mining, ETL, etc. and using databases in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets.
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