DB2 Admin

Immediate need for a talented Db2 Admin. This is a 08+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Iselin NJ/Charlotte NC/Broomfield CO/Denver CO(Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested. 

Job ID: 24-38609

Pay Range: $62/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Adabas, Natural DB2 Database Administration, implementation, and maintenance
• Enforce environment standards like object naming, security, backup and recovery and database administration
• Strong working knowledge of the Adabas and DB2 Utility suite
• Ensure 24/7 availability and performance of application databases, including on-call support
• Resolve database performance, capacity and other database related issues
• Manage database backup and recovery
• Prepare, maintain and execute disaster recovery plans
• Troubleshoot application database issues
• Oversee, and optimize all database maintenance (i.e. update statistics, etc) and backup processes
• Understanding of ITIL Change/Incident management

Key Requirements and Technology Experience: 

• Top Skills; DB2, Natural Adabas, Natural/Adabas, Adabas.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in supporting/administering DB2 in z/OS, DB2 v12 or greater
• Experience with z/OS operating system
• Knowledge of VSAM, EntireX, JCL, CICS, TSO, ISPF, REXX, IBM Mainframe Utilities and DB2 Admin Tool
• Understanding of RACF security tool
• Proficiency in Office 365 and text editors, JIRA 
• Ability to learn quickly on the job, open to learn different systems and data platforms
• Strong communication skills and experience in customer interaction in requirements gathering
• Skills in writing scripts to automate and schedule the jobs (Reorg, Runstats, Modify, Image copy, Restore, Load/ Unload, Repair etc)

Our client is a leading Insurance Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration. 

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