Job Description:
About the company
DXC offers competitive compensation and benefits, along with career growth opportunities, while prioritizing employee well-being and work-life balance. Key benefits include onboarding support, a recognition platform, flexible working hours, an Employee Assistance Program, and referral rewards
Who We Are
At DXC, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. Why choose DXC? As the largest independent mainframe services provider globally, we excel in running, optimizing, and modernizing mainframes to boost resilience.
The Role
As a member of the Mainframe team at DXC, you'll tackle complex challenges and foresee potential issues across various mainframe service line components. You'll be at the cutting edge of technology and modernization, working with some of our largest global clients. Your role will involve managing client systems data, providing daily solutions, and ensuring security compliance. You'll handle a queue of tasks, collaborate directly with technicians, and prioritize tickets to deliver optimal solutions. We as part of the world's largest independent mainframe services provider, you'll have the opportunity to recommend modernization strategies, identify new business opportunities, and build relationships with other teams and stakeholders. While the work can be demanding, you'll work with a diverse and talented team, gaining valuable management and organizational skills that will benefit your career progression.
Your future at DXC !!
Customers trust us to manage their applications running on mainframes and benefit from 3,000 experts who manage these applications. We optimise core applications and have a strong mainframe heritage, but we do not box customers into the platform. DXC has successfully completed 250+ Mainframe Migrations and 140+ IBM z/Series mainframe platforms under management running 1 million+ MIPS. We have a strong mainframe knowledge base, teams of experts where you can share and learn new in this cutting-edge technology.
DXC Offers a way forward to grow your career, from Associate to Architect. We have opportunities for Cloud that you won’t find anywhere else, including hands-on experience, learning opportunities, and the chance to certify in major platforms. In DXC we have a variety of industries, from banking to retail. Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your opportunity here.
Job Role:
Possesses expertise in mainframe IMS DBA technologies. Candidate will be responsible for the Management of Storage and related devices within a mainframe complex.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
The IMS Database Administrator would need to have at least 6+ years of experience.
In this role, you will be the IMS Database Administrator (DBA) for Mainframe applications.
Candidate must have exp in (on-line and Batch) IMS DB/DC environment.
As the DBA, you will conduct performance monitoring and tuning activities, backup and recovery as well as troubleshooting applications on IMS databases.
- Based on applications' requirements perform all changes to IMS databases in Test and Production environments.
- Implement and maintain Database backup and recovery strategy.
- Experience in creation of DBDs, PSBs, ACBs
- Strong Knowledge on IMS Utilities and DBRC.
- Experience in database initialization, forward recovery & building secondary index and pointer checker, checkpoint restart.
- Provide Production support - on-call 7x24.
- Provide troubleshooting and problem determination during outage or daily issues.
- Monitor space utilization.
- Assist with testing and validation of database software upgrades (IMS v14).
- Administration of databases throughout the development and production lifecycles.
Excellent Communication Skills.
IMS System programmer -
Systems Programmer - IMS System programmer min 4 years of experience. Capable of Installing/Upgrading IMS and related products.
The products include IMS, IBM IMS Tools,
BMC & CA IMS Tools, File-Aid/IMS, Omegamon XE/IMS etc.
Good Knowledge of SMP/E, JCL, IMS logging, IMS Commands, IMS GEN's, IMS Data sharing, IMSPlex etc.
Good understanding of IMS connectivity with other subsystems & components within the mainframe.
Understanding of IMS applications and Databases. Maintain reliability, availability of IMS systems software.
* Installation, upgrade and maintenance of IMS DB/DC and related products
* Sound knowledge in SMPE
* Familiarity with problem determination, security and performance tuning.
* Usage of IMS performance reports/metrics to analyse improvements.
* Good experience with software maintenance.
*Knowledge about the overall IBM speciality engines [ processors ] and their performance.
*Good understanding of ITIL processes and procedures.
*Ability to perform diagnostics and perform RCA [ Root cause analysis ].
*Strong analytical and documentation skills.
*Should be a team player with excellent communication and technical skills.
*Provide a 7/24 service on-call to clients
# Candidates have to work in customer work hours- US, Europe and Asia Pacific (weekends and holidays as on call staff). "
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