Mainframe zOS DB2 Systems Programmer

Description

Location: Hybrid - 3 days a week in one of the following office locations Bethlehem, PA, Stamford, CT, Holmdel, NJ, or New York, NY.

Summary

• This is a potential contract to hire role. 
• The main responsibilities of a Mainframe zOS DB2 Systems Programmer is to ensure subsystem reliability, availability, and serviceability; to provide technical expertise and guidance for both infrastructure and application design, supporting, installing/upgrades and diagnosing all DB2 and DB2-related OEM products, and performance tuning.
• At Client, we have a diverse computing environment.
• Candidates for this position must be very flexible and responsive to the changing platform.
• The successful candidate will be self-motivated, capable of working independently or on a team, a strategic thinker, and results orientated.
• He/she will be coordinating projects with technical teams in a high paced service-oriented environment and provide on-call support as required.
• He/she should be capable of handling high risk and high visibility situations with ease.
• Strong overall diagnostic and problem-solving skills, and excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.

JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Monitor DB2 system storage, memory, I/O and CPU resources, design performance improvements.
• Evaluate and recommend innovative technological solutions to meet new/existing business requirements.
• Perform daily checklists, review daily Db2 reports for anomalies, open service now tickets to application groups for problem resolution.
• Provide timely resolution to DB2 software related problems.
• Evaluate all components within DB2 for stability or errors.
• Drive problem source identification to root cause, provide workarounds, and design preventive measures.
• Create and maintain DB2 Systems SOPs and Runbooks according to the provided format.
• Participate in the planning and recovery of the DB2 subsystems as part of Disaster Recovery.
• Utilize ServiceNow ticketing process for change control.
• Complete checklists for systems tasks and submit change controls for review in a timely manner.
• Manage DB2 Catalog/directory, WLM, bufferpools, zparms, PROCS, RLF, RTS.
• Build new subsystems or relocate existing ones upon request.
• Assist in the implementation of Data Studio + debugger.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to the internal DB2 community.

PRODUCTS SUPPORTED:

• BMC Catalog Mgr(ACT), Change Mgr(ACM), Log Master(ALP), MainView for DB2, Query Manager
• Compuware File-Aid for DB2, IMS; RDX, DS
• IBM InfoSphere Replication Server (Data Propagator)
• DB2 Query Monitor (formerly Rocket – CQM)
• DB2 for LUW
• High Performance Unload (formerly Infotel)
• Informatica Power Exchange

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 10 years as a DB2 for z/OS Systems Programmer.

Hours:

• 8 am - 5 pm EST, with some weekend activities to support the software maintenance