About the job

Senior Database Administrator - DB2 Logical, Raleigh N

 The Successful candidate would be required to go to the office 5 days a week**

At Ensono, our Purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.

We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business. These five traits are the key to achieving our purpose.

HONESTY, RELIABILITY, COLLABORATION, CURIOSITY, PASSION

Role Summary

Provide premium DB2 application DBA support and services to Ensono mainframe clients as they relate to Mainframe DB2 systems. The successful candidate will perform database creation, development, administration and tuning to support our clients’ development, test and production databases. The individual will be responsible for day-to-day database maintenance such as creating backups, performing restores, monitoring file extent growth, scheduling reorganizations, creating and maintaining DR procedures and overall support of client needs and requests. The successful candidate will be called upon to perform a variety of database optimizations that will include general reporting and analysis of the efficiency of the database configuration and periodic review of database performance.

What You Will Do:

Develop and support and/or customize new services and support efforts.

Work with vendor personnel to achieve timely solutions of database problems.

Fulfill client requests and change orders for mainframe z/OS clients in a timely manner as they pertain to DB2

Provide primary support for reported problems related to client application DB2 tablespaces

Provide support on 24 x 7 x 365 basis across multiple time zones and participate in on-call responsibilities

Provide key support for client migration services (new client transitions) as they pertain to DB2

Assist the assigned project manager in the migration of newly acquired clients such that all technical hurdles are addressed in a timely manner and do not impede the expected progress of the transition nor the targeted migration date

In joint cooperation with the Disaster Recovery Services, successfully execute tasks associated with any given client’s disaster recovery plans.

Follow ITSM change control procedures

We want all new Associates to succeed in their roles at Ensono. That's why we've outlined the job requirements below. To be considered for this role, it's important that you meet all Required Qualifications. If you do not meet all of the Preferred Qualifications, we still encourage you to apply. 

What You Will Need: 

Bachelor’s degree required and/or equivalent work experience.

13 years of professional experience in DB2 for administration and application support.

Extensive experience with the following:

Administrating and supporting databases in Mainframe DB2

Support multiple DB2 subsystems simultaneously

Supporting client and internal requests for building all types of DB2 objects

Analyzing new versions of DB2 for functionality that can improve client’s systems

Refreshing test data for whole environments

Supporting DB2 security requests

Review DB2 security to find potential risks

Reorganization of application data

Vendor consultations for problems and questions

Space calculations for new objects and environments

Reviewing, tuning of internal DB2 buffer pools and SQL code

DR recovery of application objects

Troubleshooting and solving production database issues

Other Qualifications

Experience with CA, BMC, and IBM tools for DB2

Experience establishing policies and procedures pertaining to database management, DR, security, maintenance and utilization preferred

Supporting multiple for clients after hours on-call

Self-motivated and able to work independently. 

Must be able to multi-task and work under short deadlines and in high pressure situations.

Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentations)

Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently.