Senior Mainframe Database Administrator

3 days ago


Midrand, South Africa RJPersonnel Full time

8years

Create and maintain business database objects within an IDMS and DB2 subsystem.

Perform database tuning to ensure the DBMS functions at optimal levels.

Schedule database maintenance tasks.

Troubleshoot database and DBMS errors and provide solutions to support business when required.

Provide input and implement operational and business strategies, industry best practices and ensure necessary ITO governance is in place.

Perform a database consultation role and provide design solutions to Business Development and Service Management to support initiatives when required for current and future projects.

Be an integral part of the disaster recovery (DR) team which designs, performs and documents disaster recovery procedures.

Service all incidents, changes and requests and ensure that SLAs are met.

Enforce security standards to prevent data being compromised and to maintain database integrity.

Provide managerial reports of database utility, capacity and utilisation in order for them to make informed decisions.

Maintain relationships with suppliers for incident handling.

**Qualifications and Experience**:
IT degree or equivalent Industry accreditation preferred

8 years within the IT industry with at least 5 of those years being an operational DBA within a large complex corporate environment

Understanding of mainframe operating system concepts and experience in another mainframe discipline.

Experience in participating in a DR exercise.

Minimum of 4 years working experience on IDMS/DB2 databases.

Trouble shooting

Database analysis and design

Analytical thinking and problem solving

DB2 SQL writing

Database Performance tuning

Database security knowledge

Backup and recovery strategy knowledge

Usage of Database Utilities

Database Internals

Disaster recovery knowledge

Mainframe Operation systems knowledge

JCL and Mainframe schedulers

IBM Utilities and editor



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