Onsite DB2 Database Administrator

Location: Montgomery, AL (Onsite)
Type: Contract-to-Hire
What you'll do:
The Database Administrator will be responsible for the following, but not limited to:

• The ability to 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 your 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. Candidate will be part of a 24 hour on call support team and will need to work off hours on some weekends and holidays.
• 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

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Science, Business Administration, Mathematics or related field with 6 years of experience. An addition 4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree requirement.
• 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 interfacing 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

Preferred Qualifications: Candidates with these desired skills will be given preferential consideration:

• 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

Required Skills : DB2 Mainframe z/OS Cobol
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship :Yes
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Development/Engineering
Master Job Title :DBA: DB2
Branch Code :San Diego