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APPLICATIONS IMS DBA , AUSTIN, TX (REMOTE)

Contract : 5 Months (3 Yrs Ext)

Deadline: 4/15/25

Job Description:·  

  • 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.

Required Skills:

  • 7 Yrs of Experience with z/OS Systems platform

  • 5 Yrs of Experience with mainframe application IMS database administration

  • 5 Yrs of Experience with DBRC and forward recoveries

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

  • 5 Yrs of Experience with Batch and CICS Cobol, IMS programming and problem resolution

  • 5 Yrs of Experience developing and troubleshooting complex JCL

  • 5 Yrs of Experience with JCL, CICS, VSAM, and TSO

  • 2 Yrs of Experience writing, analyzing, and debugging REXX programs in a z/OS environment

  • 2 Yrs of Experience with IMS HAL databases

  • 2 Yrs of Experience with IMS Catalog

Preferred Skills:

  • 5 Yrs of Working knowledge of Top Secret setup, administration, and reporting

  • 2 Yrs of Experience maintaining mainframe printer assignments, including working knowledge of IP Printway

  • 3+ Yrs of Experience with ISPF panels, skeletons and REXX code

  • 3+ Yrs of Experience with ISMF storage functions

  • Working knowledge of batch SFTP and FTPS processing

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

  • Experience with logically related application IMS databases

Kavitha K