Unum UK

Senior Mainframe Database Administrator, IMS

Unum UK

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: ColumbiaMaineSouth CarolinaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $89,400 - $183,500 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Managing procedures and tools required to support development and testing activities
  • Assisting in all operational environments in the maintenance of production data and data archiving
  • Functioning as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for solving complex problems
  • Supporting IMS and stored procedure calls
  • Works with the Project Manager and Release Coordinators to control changes made to supported databases
  • Support of day-to-day production, conversions, application and enterprise IT projects
  • Disaster recovery
  • Logical/physical database design and performance tuning
  • Ability to troubleshoot IMS service calls from a host and distributed environment
  • Provide on-call support on a rotational basis outside normal business hours as needed

Requirements

  • 6+ years of DBA experience in a z/OS / MVS environment
  • 6+ years database administration for IMS in an IBM mainframe environment
  • 4-year college degree or equivalent
  • Knowledge of IMS Database Manager, DBD source and generation
  • Understanding of Database Recovery Control [DBRC] information and commands
  • BMP and basic DL/I coding imbedded in COBOL source
  • Familiarity with IMS Transaction Manager
  • Basic control region and message region processing
  • PSB coding and generation
  • ACB, MODBLKS, and FORMAT generation
  • Strong working knowledge of HALDB partitioning schemes and underlying structures
  • Ability to backup and restore and maintain partitions
  • Familiarity with IMS Utility JCL, execution, restart, commands for Database allocation changes
  • DB2 for z/OS DB2 Catalog knowledge
  • Understanding of DB2 security administration including Grants, Revokes
  • Basic knowledge of required authorities for application development including Bind, Plans, Packages
  • Familiarity with DB2 Utility JCL, execution, restart
  • Understanding of utility impact on DB2 object availability
  • Knowledge of SQL and basic DB2 development techniques
  • Ability to understand COBOL and SQL/PL for analysis
  • z/OS, TSO, ISPF, JCL, and SDSF Coding and debugging
  • Familiarity with RACF, rules protecting datasets
Benefits
  • healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental)
  • insurance benefits (short & long-term disability)
  • performance-based incentive plans
  • paid time off
  • 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not
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Hard Skills & Tools
DBA experienceIMS database administrationdatabase recovery controlBMP codingDL/I codingIMS Transaction ManagerHALDB partitioningDB2 for z/OSSQLCOBOL
Soft Skills
problem solvingon-call supportcollaboration
Certifications
4-year college degree