DataStage Platform Support Engineer
EVER FORTH LLC
Cincinnati, United States of America
25 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Shift work Languages
EnglishJob location
Cincinnati, United States of America
Tech stack
Microsoft Excel
Information Engineering
ETL
IBM InfoSphere DataStage
Linux
Metadata
Power BI
Job description
This role supports a temporary capacity surge and backlog within the DataStage environment. The focus is on incident response, platform health, job optimization, and stability across a large-scale DataStage footprint. Work includes both platform administration and some development. What You'll Do
- Monitor DataStage platform health, performance, and stability
- Respond to incidents and job failures; troubleshoot and remediate issues
- Identify jobs consuming excessive resources or not optimized
- Review job setup, high-level metadata, and design in the DS Ops Console
- Validate that developers are using appropriate DataStage stages and best practices
- Perform DataStage admin tasks and some ETL/data engineering development
- Analyze results and trends; document findings using Excel or Power BI
- Support a high-volume environment:
- 30,000+ unique jobs
- 70,000 daily job runs
- Work heavily within Linux systems
- Quantify work and platform insights using Power BI
Requirements
- DataStage 11.7
- DataStage administration
- DataStage development (ETL / data engineering)
- Ability to analyze job design and metadata
- Strong Linux experience
- Ability to troubleshoot and optimize inefficient jobs
- Understanding of DataStage best practices
- Power BI (or Excel) for reporting and trend analysis, * Experience supporting large-scale DataStage environments
- Strong troubleshooting and optimization skills
- Proactive - identifies issues and next steps without waiting for direction
About the company
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.