What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mainframe Systems Programmer/Mainframe DBA position at West Advanced Technologies?
Mainframe Systems Programmer / Mainframe Database Administrator (DBA)
Downey, CA
12 months
Required Skills :
The Mainframe Systems Programmer / DBA for Legacy Systems manages different types of databases, such as hierarchical (IMS), relational (DB2), and file-based (ADABAS), and is responsible for planning and upgrading the database environments on a County-established basis; verifying the health of all the databases; database administration technical consulting for application and operations teams for the purpose of project planning / development; maintenance on production database systems; performance of technical reviews for existing systems that utilize one of the following database management systems (DBMS) : ADABAS, DB2 or IMS; performance of evaluations for the purposes of selecting new or fine-tuning existing DBMS software; consultation with project development teams to provide recommendations on database design; development of logical and physical database designs; creation of overviews of logical database designs; creation of physical databases; database capacity planning; development and use of backup and recovery procedures for databases; database performance monitoring; database space monitoring; database reorganizations; database replication; database compression and database partitioning. The following technology skill sets are required to perform in this classification. IBM : Z / OS, IMS, DB2, ADABAS, SMP / E, JCL, IMS DB / DC, CICS, ACF2, ASSEMBLER / COBOL / REXX, IBM FILE MANAGER, DELTA / IMS, NATURAL / SUPERNAT, ENTIREX, CA SPOOL, IMS & DB2 BMC Tools, N20 / TRIM.
This classification must have a minimum of seven (7) years of experience as a Systems Programming / DBA, with at least three (3) years of that experience in a lead role.
This classification requires the possession of a bachelor's degree in an IT-related or engineering field.
Desired Skills :
Z / OS 2.4,HCD / IODEF , Z13S,Z15,SMP / E, ASSEMBLER, JCL, COBOL,ACF2,SYSPLEX coupling facility,, HMC (Processor Interface), OSA (Networking Interface), ICC (Integrated Console Controller), FICON (Fiber connectivity to peripheral devices),z / OS Open System and Unix Systems Services (USS) on the Mainframe. ,CLIST, REXX,, FICON switch configuration and definition in HCD, Server Time Protocol (STP) configuration.
15 Years of experience with Z / OS operating system upgrade, 10 Years of experience with Mainframe hardware upgrade projects. 6 Years of experience with HCD & HMC. 4 Years of experience with DB2 or IMS or IBM Tools installation. 2 Years of Experience with mainframe storage.
Additional Information : This is not Mainframe application developer role. This is strictly Z / OS System programmer role.
Regards
Sunil Damagalla
West Advanced Technologies, Inc
E : sunil.d@wati.com D : 279-666-5837
