mainframe (db2) database administrator - richmond, va
Randstad
- Virginia
- $46.14-56.14 per hour
- Contract
- Full-time
- Candidates can sit in any of these locations: Plano, TX; Jersey City, NJ; Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA; Jacksonville, FL; Charlotte,NC; Richmond, VA; Chandler, AZ; Newark, DE
- W2 (USC/ GC only) no Visa candidates ,including H1B, OPT and H4
- Looking for an Admin to manage day-to-day support - NOT looking for a Cobol dev or application programer - strictly looking for admin to maitain CICS environment, trouble shoot, perforamce reporting, analysis, etc.
- Team does require 24X7 on call support - candidate should expect to be on-call once a week with occasional weekend support
- Program supports the Brokerage CICS team - prior financial experience is great however technical skills are more important.
- Candidate will be working in a group environment they will be expected to fit in with the culture
- The position supports a large scale CICS/TS environment running in a zOS parallel SYSPLEX environment with complex multi-tiered applications making heavy use of MRO, IMS, VSAM files and DB2.
- This function performs software implementation, maintenance, certification testing, development and documentation of operational procedures.
- Problem debugging and root cause analysis, interaction with software vendors.
- The group this position is part of will require some off-hours and weekend work as well as rotation in 24 x 7 ONCALL support.
- Technical background in the z/OS mainframe arena plus knowledge of CICS/TS operations are necessary for the position.
- The candidate must be proficient in the use of JCL and working with various vendor utility programs. They must possess good analytical skills, debugging skills, knowledge of COBOL and CICS Command Level language programming.
- Good communication skills both written and oral are required as the individual must interface with application developers, support teams, software vendors and management staff.
- Rexx, CICS WEB Interface, RACF, programming experience with Assembler, COBOL or Java would be a plus as would experince with zOS CONNECT and/or Zosmf.
job type: Contract
salary: $46.14 - 56.14 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelorsresponsibilities:
- The position supports a large scale CICS/TS environment running in a zOS parallel SYSPLEX environment with complex multi-tiered applications making heavy use of MRO, IMS, VSAM files and DB2.
- This function performs software implementation, maintenance, certification testing, development and documentation of operational procedures.
- Experience level: Experienced
- Minimum 10 years of experience
- Education: Bachelors
- Mainframe (5 years of experience is required)
- Mainframe (5 years of experience is required)
- CICS/TS environment (5 years of experience is required)
- zOS (6 years of experience is required)
- COBOL programming language (5 years of experience is required)
- mainframe administrator (6 years of experience is required)