Senior Mainframe Database Administrator (DB2)

Full-time - Senior

Montgomery, AL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Peraton is searching for a talented Senior DB2 Database Administrator to become part of Peraton's Citizens Security & Public Services, State and Regional team supporting a contract with the state of Alabama. This position will be on-site in Montgomery, Alabama.

Responsibilities

• Work on a diverse team or with a diverse range of people as one of three onsite DB2 z/OS application DBAs for the customer
• Demonstrate proficiency with the DB2 Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
• Prepare for, participate in and provide a DB2 and application performance and tuning perspective from initial development design through implementation
• Use experience with DB2 to address and resolve problems
• Tune the SQL statements in application programs for assigned projects from initial design, development through production
• Logical & physical database design for projects
• Database maintenance, on-call rotation, problem determination and resolution, database security
• Evaluate new products and tools, test and implement new or upgraded software
• Collaborate on annual ALECS Disaster Recovery exercises
• Design, implement and support database and application backup and recovery solutions using IBM and BMC tools
• Upgrade and maintain DB2 and related 3rd party software at or above release levels of N-1
• Adhere to all contract SLAs

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree with 8 years of experience or a Masters degree and 6 years of experience or a High School diploma/equivalent and 12+ years of experience
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder
• Must have excellent communication skills
• Minimum of 6 years of IT Mainframe experience
• Minimum of 5 years of DB2 zOS mainframe DBA experience
• Minimum 3 years of COBOL/DB2 mainframe application software development database administration support
• Experience with DB2 Connect
• BMC third party software experience (Catalog, Change, DASD, and Recovery Manager, Load, Unload, Copy, Recover, SQL Explorer, Apptune, Logmaster)
• Ability to troubleshoot mainframe and distributed processing problems in a DB2 Connect Enterprise server environment
• Ability to directly interface with clients from end users to project management, sensitive to clients' needs, able to develop warm client relationships
• Ability to travel to annual off site disaster recovery exercise

Nice-to-haves

• 1 year experience with Powerdesigner or other logical modeling tool
• 1 year experience with DB2 COBOL Stored Procedures
• 1 year State government customer DBA project experience
• 1 year Customer site DBA delivery experience
• 1 year 24 x 7 x 365 DBA on call support delivery
• 1 year SQL Server DBA experience
• 1 year with SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) or other ETL tool

Benefits

• Fully comprehensive medical plans
• Tuition reimbursement
• Tuition assistance
• Fertility treatment