IMS DB System Administrator

Cognizant Melbourne, Australia

Posted 19 hours ago Permanent Competitive

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced IMS System Programmer to install, maintain, and support our IMS V15 environment. You will own the day-to-day health of the IMS subsystem, from installation and fix maintenance through backup and recovery, and help the business evaluate new IMS capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Perform IMS V15 system programming: software installation and application of fixes.
Carry out scheduled administrative activities, including system start-up and shutdown.
Perform problem determination and resolution for IMS system software and related products, utilities, and tools.
Define and implement policies for disk storage set-up, CPU consumption limits, and backup strategy for IMS subsystem objects.
Administer and maintain IMS systems, including running backups and recovering corrupted data.
Carry out research and proof-of-concept work to test new and recent features of IMS and related products, and report long-term cost-benefits to senior management on an ongoing basis.

Mandatory Skills

Strong knowledge of RDBMS concepts
Experience with IMS software upgrades
Experience with complete system-level backup and recovery
IMS system definition (IMSGEN / SYSGEN)
Knowledge of IBM IMS utilities, including backup, reorganization, recovery, load, unload, and pointer checking
Creation of databases, tablespaces, tables, and indexes
Knowledge of basic IMS or Db2 commands
Security management and space management
Incident, change, and problem management
SQL performance tuning
Monitoring DBA housekeeping jobs, and resolving deadlocks and timeouts

Good-to-Have Skills

Change and configuration management: testing and moving updates through staging environments (ITIL Change and Configuration Management)
Problem identification, determination, and resolution for products or their usage, in conjunction with the requestor (ITIL Incident/Problem Management)

Job ID 00071229481

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