Salary
💰 $80,000 - $150,000 per year
About the role
- Responsible for creating Low Level Design (LLD) documents and providing technical knowledge to support the Sales and Solution Architecture teams
- Interact with potential and new clients to assist with identifying components in scope for Client On-boarding and Migrations
- Perform Client Onboarding, Migrations, and completing end-to-end server builds
- Responsible for upgrades for DB2 on zOS and associated ISV products
- Engage in the transition from client’s in-house IT into Ensono’s support
- Support DB2 for one or more clients; apply maintenance and perform upgrades as needed
- Upgrade and support ISV software related to DB2
- Engage in the testing and monitoring of existing DB2 workloads after OS or CPU upgrades
- Work with clients to debug database related issues
- Participate in Knowledge Transfer and shadowing of client environments
- Work on a team of other mainframe professionals to transition new clients into Ensono’s support
- Troubleshooting and solving of DB2 System database issues
- Troubleshooting and solving DB2 software related issues
- Work with WLM environment with respect to DB2
- Use DB2 Utilities, TSO and FTP
- Use SMP/E in the installation process
- Project-based work; not a 24x7 on-call position
Requirements
- Five years of experience working within a z/OS environment
- Familiarity with mainframe functional areas such as z/OS Operating System, Storage, Databases, CICS, and Disaster Recovery concepts
- Technical implementation skills required for DB2 on zOS and related ISV software products on the z/OS platform
- Experience with SMP/E, including base installation and maintenance application for DB2 and related ISV software
- Proficiency in interacting with ISV vendors, problem determination and resolution for the products identified above
- Experience with ISV products including CA database tools, IBM database tools, Sysview, Omegamon, and Mainview
- Ability to host meetings and conference calls
- Must be self-motivated and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel to a level of creating documents which can be shared with clients
- Will serve as primary technical contact for mainframe Database for one or more clients during transition
- Experience supporting DB2 zOS from a Systems or DBA perspective is required
- Experience with CICS or zOS Operating System a plus
- Experience upgrading DB2 zOS
- Understanding of DB2 connect, Security exits
- DB2 data sharing in a SYSPLEX environment
- Extracting information from DB2 logs
- DB2 Database system recovery