DB2 / IDMS Database administrator (1-year contract)

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POSITION INFO:

One of the TOP banks in S.A. is seeking an experienced DB2 / IDMS Data Administrator to join their JHB team on a 1-year contract. 

Qualifications and experience:

• IT degree or equivalent 
• Minimum of 4 years' work experience on IDMS / DB2 database
• No less than 8 years' within IT, of which 5 years' is in operational DBA within a large complex corporate environment 
• Understanding of mainframe operating system concepts and experience in another mainframe discipline 
• Experience in DR exercise 
• Willing to travel when required
• Position requires standby duties and after hours support
• Provide customer support during weekends 

Key skills:

• Planning
• Results driven
• Accountability
• Customer orientated 
• Adaptable 
• Programming
• Troubleshooting
• Database analysis and design
• Analytical
• Problem solving
• DB2 SQL writing
• Database performance tuning
• Database security 
• Backup and recovery strategy
• Usage of database utilities
• Database internals
• Disaster recovery 
• Mainframe operations systems
• JCL and mainframe schedulers
• IBM utilities and editor
• Usage of supplied database toolsets (DB2admin and Spufi)
• IDMS supplied and DMLO navigation

Key performance areas:

• Incident handling
• Supplier liaison
• Draft managerial reports: database utility, capacity and utilisation 
• Maintain database integrity 
• Form part of the disaster recovery team
• Provide design solutions to business development, service management to support the initiatives for projects
• Conduct database monitoring to ensure optimal data access
• Support business database applications
• Troubleshoot database an DBMS errors 
• Create and maintain business database objects within IDMS / DB2 sub-system 
• Perform database tuning  

 

 

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