Senior Database Administrator - Logical - Mainframe DB2

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
No Travel Required

Skills

Db2 Database Administration
Logical
database creation
development
administration and tuning
creating backups
performing restores
monitoring file extent growth
scheduling reorganizations
creating and maintaining DR

Job Details

Senior Database Administrator Mainframe DB2 Logical

  • 6 months Contract to Hire ( excellent benefits on hire )
  • 4-5 days onsite in Weehawken, NJ OR Morrisville, NC
  • Client is willing to provide relocation support
  • End client is a large well known Bank

Role Summary

Provide premium DB2 application DBA support and services to our mainframe clients as they relate to Mainframe DB2 systems. The successful candidate will perform database creation, development, administration and tuning to support our clients development, test and production databases. The individual will be responsible for day-to-day database maintenance such as creating backups, performing restores, monitoring file extent growth, scheduling reorganizations, creating and maintaining DR procedures and overall support of client needs and requests. The successful candidate will be called upon to perform a variety of database optimizations that will include general reporting and analysis of the efficiency of the database configuration and periodic review of database performance.

What You Will Do:

  • Develop and support and/or customize new services and support efforts.
  • Work with vendor personnel to achieve timely solutions of database problems.
  • Fulfill client requests and change orders for mainframe z/OS clients in a timely manner as they pertain to DB2
  • Provide primary support for reported problems related to client application DB2 tablespaces
  • Provide support on 24 x 7 x 365 basis across multiple time zones and participate in on-call responsibilities
  • Provide key support for client migration services (new client transitions) as they pertain to DB2
  • Assist the assigned project manager in the migration of newly acquired clients such that all technical hurdles are addressed in a timely manner and do not impede the expected progress of the transition nor the targeted migration date
  • In joint cooperation with the Disaster Recovery Services, successfully execute tasks associated with any given client s disaster recovery plans.
  • Follow ITSM change control procedures

Requirements:

  • Bachelor s degree required and/or equivalent work experience.
  • 12+years of professional experience in DB2 for administration and application support.
  • Extensive experience with the following:
  • Administrating and supporting databases in Mainframe DB2
  • Support multiple DB2 subsystems simultaneously
  • Supporting client and internal requests for building all types of DB2 objects
  • Analyzing new versions of DB2 for functionality that can improve client s systems
  • Refreshing test data for whole environments
  • Supporting DB2 security requests
  • Review DB2 security to find potential risks
  • Reorganization of application data
  • Vendor consultations for problems and questions
  • Space calculations for new objects and environments
  • Reviewing, tuning of internal DB2 buffer pools and SQL code
  • DR recovery of application objects
  • Troubleshooting and solving production database issues

Other Qualifications

  • Experience with CA, BMC, and IBM tools for DB2
  • Experience establishing policies and procedures pertaining to database management, DR, security, maintenance and utilization preferred
  • Supporting multiple for clients after hours on-call ( on rotation )
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently.
  • Must be able to multi-task and work under short deadlines and in high pressure situations.
  • Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentations)
  • Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently.
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