Mainframe Engineer - ADABAS

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Mainframe Engineer - ADABAS for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients. This position is fully remote.

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 IBM's Data Virtualization Manager and EntireX.

Responsibilities :

• 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

Required Skills:

• 7 to 10 years technical experience
• Task Management using JIRA
• Weekend shift and on call rotation required.
• 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
• 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

Preferred Skills:

• University Degree (B.S.)
• Experience with Project Management and Agile preferred
• Data analysis and manipulation Scripting/coding experience a plus

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