IMS (or DB2) Database Administrator

Position: IMS Database Administrator/Systems Programmer Location: Telecommute and should be available on-call Contract Duration: 1 to 2 years (renewed annually) Client: County in CA (The Innovation and Technology Department) NOTE: Additionally, please note that the County has a contract of hourly rate terms as well as on-call availability agreed upon through negotiations. Please confirm hourly and on-call rates separately when submitting candidate for review. Information to supply to potential applicants. This position has been approved for fulltime telecommute with on-call availability. Hours of work will be Monday through Friday, 8am-5pm, with occasional after hours, Holidays and Weekends. IMS Database Administrator/Systems Programmer (Contract) Job Specs: The Innovation and Technology Department of client is seeking a motivated contract IMS DBA. The candidate will

• Work business hours and occasional after hours and weekends.
• Provide for coverage of other mainframe system DBAs as necessary.
• Provide on-call support after hours and weekends.

• Install, implement, test and tune IMS Database and Transaction manager systems.
• Provide Database Administrator (DBA) Support for application developers.
• Disaster Recovery preparedness for IMS by maintaining and tuning backup and recovery

• Maintain IMS virtualization mapping for IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator and Data Virtualization

• Work with other DBAs and systems programmers in support of DBA software such as DB2, QMF

• IMS DBA to support IMS v15 environment on zOS
• IMS DB and TM running several databases and transactions.
• Knowledge of development lifecycle, PSBs, copy books, and MFSs.
• Knowledge of IMS system administration using IMS consoles, JCL, DL/I, DFSDDLT0, backup and restore, database reorg and pointer checkers.
• Strong knowledge of DBRC, and IMS control and message regions.
• Desirable Skills, but not required:
  • Sysview for IMS, ESP, Endevor, or OpsMVS from Broadcom
  • File Manager
  • Shadow from Rocket software
  • Tivoli Decision Support
  • IBM DB2 and QMF

• Minimum of 5 years as IMS (or DB2) Database Administrator.
• Thirty (30) semester (45 quarter) units of completed, post high-school coursework from an