IBM Z Mainframe Engineer (India)

About the Company We are hiring for a Software Solutions company headquartered in East Brunswick, NJ. Incorporated in 2003, It provides comprehensive range of solutions in the area of GRC, Technology, Procurement, Healthcare Provider and Oracle to customers across the globe. Combining our unparalleled experience of over a decade in the software industry and global reach, we have grown with extensive capabilities across industry verticals.

Job Summary Company provides comprehensive hosted services for retail brokerage customers’ end-to-end business operations. The core of these services runs on multiple IBM Parallel Sysplex environments utilizing IBM’s DB2 z/OS in a high-performance, highly-available data-sharing configuration. This DB2 Systems Administrator Team Lead role is responsible for the installation, maintenance, and administration of the DB2 z/OS subsystem and associated support products to support the demands of the fast-paced, time-critical financial trading industry.

Essential Responsibilities

• Installation/maintenance of IBM DB2 z/OS software and related 3rd-party products utilizing SMP/E. This includes working with IBM and other vendors to address product defects, issues, and usage questions.
• Configuration of DB2 groups and subsystems in SYSPLEX data-sharing environment, supporting IBM CICS, batch COBOL, and distributed access applications.
• Perform problem analysis and resolution, both technical and application related
• Performance and capacity tuning of system parameters and resources, utilizing various monitoring and reporting tools.
• Responsible for DB2 availability and recovery strategies and procedures.
• Documentation of policies and procedures in compliance with ISO 27002 standards.
• Provide mentoring and cross-functional collaboration with business units.
• Provide secondary and level 2 support for the DBA staff on system issues, application. performance and overall DB2 issues, including being comfortable with high-pressure, time-sensitive environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years IBM System Z experience and concepts, with considerable knowledge in the following:
• SMP/E
• IBM DB2 utilities, BMC Mainview for DB2 and BMC Tool Suite for DB2, particularly Detector, Subsystem analyzer, Apptune, AMI Reorg and AMI Unload/Load
• Experience with DB2 z/OS as a distributed server
• FLASH technology, DASD replication techniques
• z/OS Storage management
• RACF security management w/DB2 z/OS
• Coupling Facility
• Networking concepts (IP, SNA)
• WLM concepts
• USS - z/OS UNIX System Services
• ‘For-Bit’ Data structures
• REXX application programming
• 7+ years IBM DB2 experience, with advanced knowledge in the following:
• Bufferpool/memory management
• DB2 internal structures (RID, EDM, BPs, etc.)
• Tablespace/Page structures / UTS
• Backup/recovery/logging facilities and strategies
• DB2 locking
• ZPARMS
• DB2 tracing/IFCIDs
• Experience in problem determination and analysis
• Analytical / critical / “outside-the-box” thinking in problem solving, especially in possible critical, high-pressure situations.

Additional Skills A Plus

• Informatica PowerExchange & IDMC
• Java, web services, SOA concepts
• Application DBA Responsibilities
• DB2-AI and Cloud Modernization Technology