Senior Mainframe IMS Database Administrator (IMS DBA)

Direct client Req:: Need Senior Mainframe IMS Database Administrator (IMS DBA)- ,Remote, NC, All work products resulting from the project shall be considered “works made for hire” and are the property of the Railroad Commission of Texas and may include preselection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. The Railroad Commission of Texas will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).

· Provides technical leadership and guidance to the mainframe IMS application teams and collaborates with the Mainframe Systems teams to ensure the applications are highly available. Provide DBA maintenance and development support of application databases in all environments (development, acceptance, and production). Work will involve highly advanced (senior-level) systems administration in support of agency mainframe applications and supporting infrastructure; and coordination of day-to-day system administration functions. As the DBA, you will conduct performance monitoring and tuning activities, backup and recovery as well as troubleshooting applications on IMS databases.

· Routine system administration functions to include performance monitoring, security monitoring, and maintenance

· Work includes supporting processes, overseeing and coordinating mainframe operations in the State’s Consolidated Data Center Services (DCS), and working with the Network Administration, Customer Support and Applications

· Development & Support teams to provide support necessary for day-to-day mainframe operations.

· The Worker will apply their expert knowledge and experience as a Mainframe IMS Application Database Administrator to support both the needs of the Legacy Systems as well as those for the Mainframe Transformation Team.

7

Required

Experience with z/OS Systems platform

5

Required

Experience with mainframe application IMS database administration

5

Required

Experience with DBRC and forward recoveries

7

Required

Experience in basic z/OS utilities: TSO, SYSVIEW and/or SDSF, JSF, Basic IBM utilities IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14

5

Required

Experience with Batch and CICS Cobol, IMS programming and problem resolution

5

Required

Experience developing and troubleshooting complex JCL

5

Required

Experience with JCL, CICS, VSAM, and TSO

2

Required

Experience writing, analyzing, and debugging REXX programs in a z/OS environment

2

Required

Experience with IMS HAL databases

2

Required

Experience with IMS Catalog

5

Preferred

Working knowledge of Top Secret setup, administration, and reporting

2

Preferred

Experience maintaining mainframe printer assignments, including working knowledge of IPPrintway

3

Preferred

Experience with ISPF panels, skeletons and REXX code

3

Preferred

Experience with ISMF storage functions

Preferred

Working knowledge of batch SFTP and FTPS processing

Preferred

Working knowledge of Informatica Power Exchange software using mainframe datasets (IMS and VSAM) as either a source or target for change data capture

Preferred

Experience with logically related application IMS databases