Db2 Mvs

Contact person for this position:
Amori Prinsloo

Our client an IT Solutions company is urgently looking to employ a strong DB2 MVS/ Mainframe - DBA who will be responsible for planning, controlling, and supporting of structured data assets across the data lifecycle from creation and acquisition through to archival and purge.

**This is a 1-year contract that could extend for 5 years.**

**Responsibilities**:

- Ensure the performance and reliability of the database, including performance tuning, monitoring, automation and error reporting
- Provide input to ensure appropriate backup and recovery mechanisms are in place to ensure data recovery in any circumstance
- Provide rules for archiving of operational data to prevent overload on the Line of Business systems
- Define mechanisms and put processes in place for controlled implementation and changes to database
- Develop and implement appropriate mechanisms for ensuring availability, integrity, and recoverability of data, due to loss or corruption of data
- Provide input to ensure database availability, recovery, and performance in accordance with service level agreements
- Maintain database connectivity for development and tester communities to ensure continued availability.
- Provide recommendations for capacity planning about storage and CPU requirements based on current and forecasted business and system requirements
- Collaborate with data analysts to design and implement processes to load data from various sources into the database Enforce DB2 database security standards to prevent data from being compromised and to maintain database integrity
- Monitor existing data replication subscriptions from Source to Target databases
- Create, update and maintain subscriptions for data replication

**Skills and Experience: Qualification required**:

- IT degree or equivalent diploma DB2 DBA certification

**Experience required**:

- A minimum of 5 years’ experience as a DB2 Applications DBA
- In-depth knowledge of DB2 database administration and performance tuning
- Knowledge of DB2 monitoring tools and previous experience with integration tools
- In-depth knowledge of physical database design

Area: Sandton

Work remotely

**Salary**: Negotiable - depending on experience