ADABAS Mainframe Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Database Administrator and contribute to the monitoring, maintenance, and support of our database systems. You will be responsible for database backup and recovery, performance analysis, and troubleshooting. This role requires strong experience with z/OS, IBM mainframe, ADABAS, and NATURAL. You will provide level one and two support, implement changes to database subsystems, and build tools to automate reporting and monitoring. Weekend and on-call rotation is required. The ideal candidate will have a university degree and 7-10 years of technical experience.

Requirements

• University Degree (B.S.) and at least 7 to 10 years technical experience
• Weekend shift and on call rotation required

Responsibilities

• Monitor automation messages for database exception conditions
• Analyze application and database performance problems
• Initiates a shift turnover for issues or problems including any outstanding tickets, mails, abends, calls or messages that are still being worked on are communicated or handed over
• Responsible for the creation, scheduling, and support of database backup and maintenance processes
• Implement database turnover requests for all APG groups and application for all environments
• Perform verification for database maintenance upgrades
• Execute Weekend verification involving the running of the IVP and following up on outstanding reorgs, utilities, or replication tasks
• Provide support and assistance for the database engineering groups for Weekend work
• Support efforts for the database Performance Lab
• Preparing for, coordinating, writing up and communicating the summary of the weekend work
• Provide level one and level two support on database systems and address spaces
• Implement changes to database subsystem variables
• Monitor and read and respond to incoming mail and newsgroups relating to problems and questions
• Providing level one and level two support of the utility suite of applications
• Following the DTS procedures and policies for escalation and notification
• Escalation to next Tier and/or management
• Register events from clients into tracking tools
• Performance weekend verification after infrastructure upgrades and system IPLs
• Build tools to automate reporting, monitoring and improving platform stability

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Project Management and Agile preferred
• Data analysis and manipulation
• Scripting/coding experience a plus
• Solid familiarity with z/OS IBM mainframe
• IBM s z/OS Operating system and Tools (ISPF,TSO,SDSF,JCL)
• ADABAS database on mainframe (level 8.x.x)
• NATURAL language on mainframe (level 9.x.x)
• FTP,Rexx
• Agile development, SDLC, DevOps best practices
• Task Management using JIRA
• Adabas Cluster Services
• Adabas Parallel Services
• Adabas Replication Services
• Adabas Delta Save
• Adabas Cache
• Adabas Vista/Coordinator/Fast Path
• DB2 on mainframe
• Networking protocols - TCP/IP,UDP,HTTP.Port Security administration
• CA Sysview,ICAMS,Omegamon
• Assembler programming