Senior Consultant- Devops

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd in Melbourne is seeking an experienced DB2 Systems Programmer to join a global team overseeing mainframe DB2 environments. The role focuses on building, configuring and maintaining DB2 subsystems, CICS and MQSeries components, and ensuring service availability, performance, and disaster recovery.

A strong background in system programming and mainframe tooling is required. The candidate will work across installations, upgrades, and problem resolution for DB2 on

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with Mainframe DB2 System Programming.
• Experience in installing, customizing and maintaining Mainframe DB2 and ISV products.
• Knowledge of SMP/E and applying maintenance to DB2 subsystems.
• Experience with JCL, ISPF, WLM and stored procedures.

Responsibilities

• Maintain DSNZPARMs and DB2 address spaces.
• Implement automated disaster recovery for DB2 subsystems and third-party products.
• Monitor and troubleshoot DB2 address spaces and performance.
• Plan maintenance windows and capacity for DB2 environments.
• Coordinate with vendors for escalations and PTFs.
• Assist testing, implementation and installation of DB2 systems and upgrades.

Skills

DB2 Mainframe

CICS MQSeries

z/OS

DSNZPARMs

RACF

SMP/E

JCL/ISPF

PTF/maintenance

Mainframe performance tools

Q-replication/Data analytics (IBM DB2)

Tools

DB2

CICS

MQSeries

z/OS

Job description

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd | Contract

Melbourne, Australia

• XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in 2016, is a Software Services company
• XPT works with topclients across Australia in Banking, Insurance, Telecom,Retail, Energy, Mining and Manufacturingdomains.
• We have 120+technocrats in Australia working at our clientlocations.
• XPT SoftwareAustralia is part of group companies which has globalpresence across India & Europe.
• We have served100+ clients globally, fulfilling their onsite-offshoreneeds.

Job Description

Must Have Skills:

• Evaluateand implement new features/functions of DB2 and associated third partyproducts.
• Extensive use of utilitiesand Performance Monitoring tools using BMC, CA and IBM products.
• Consultant on DB2 databaseapplications architecture
• Knowledge of SMP/E and canprepare for and apply maintenance to a DB2 subsystem
• Engineer and execute theprocesses to upgrade and/or apply maintenance to releases / versions ofmainframe database system software, and associated third party products
• Maintain DSNZPARMs

Nice to Have Skills: Skill: Mainframe DB2System Programmer

We are looking for DB2 SystemsProgrammer, who will be part of a Global team responsible for building,configuring and maintaining the Bank’s mainframe systems. Currently we arerunning the largest parallel SysPlex in the Nordic region. Our primary designgoals are service availability, efficiency and resilience, underpinned by thearchitectural principle of cloned infrastructure, system configurations andapplications.

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain DSNZPARMs
• Implement automated disasterrecovery mechanisms for Mainframe Database subsystems and associated thirdparty products.Participate in allrecovery coordination activities
• Create & modify WLMaddress spaces for stored procedures as needed
• Database security management
• Backup/Recovery strategies
• Scalability Analysis
• Planning Database maintenancewindow
• Capacity planning
• Monitor and troubleshoot DB2address spaces for any potential issues
• Prepare and executehousekeeping strategies for the DB2 Catalog and Directory.
• Implement security strategyfor DB2 via RACF.
• Troubleshoot Level 3 DB2Database issues.
• Provide Level 3 support totroubleshoot/resolve system level and application problems with DB2 Databasetechnologies and associated Third Party products – coordinateescalation/intervention with vendor as necessary.
• Strong experience ofinstalling, customizing and maintaining Mainframe DB2 and ISV products
• Strong experience managingQ-replication and IBM DB2 Data Analytics accelerator product suite
• Strong experience working with large datasharing SysPlex environment
• Hands-on experience of managing systemoperations, problem diagnosis, performance tuning in both system andapplication arena
• Good experience with IBM DB2Utilities, Disaster recovery and system restoration
• Install, upgrade and administer mainframe DB2 and DB2 relatedtools software.
• Assist with testing, implementation and installation of new orimproved systems, as well as product upgrades.
• Good knowledge on DB2 migrations and upgrades for DB2 V12.1 andV13.1 versions.
• Good Knowledge on Problem diagnosis related to DB2 and their DB2tools products.
• Strong DB2 system programming skill, DB2 recovery, maintain systemobjects and ZPARM parameter configuration.
• Good knowledge of DB2 tools installation and upgrades for IBMutilities, Broadcom products.
• Experience in SMPE knowledge of RSU maintenance apply procedures.
• Experience in JCL, ISPF, DB2 related products, WLM and storedprocedures
• Knowledge of performance monitoring and troubleshooting DB2issues.
• Strong skill set must be needed on DB2 data sharing experience andfailover process.
• Good knowledge of Disaster recovery of DB2 systems includestraditional DR and flash copy DR.
• Interact with ticketing tool remedy, service center and otherbusiness support areas for problem escalations, resolutions, reporting andcoordination.
• Attend meetings and interact regularly with management, team andclients to continuously improve services. Provide 24*7 support if needed onthe project support.

Detailed Job Description: JD –

• Shouldhave experience in Mainframe CICS and MQ environment for 10+ years.
• Supportthe operations of the Mainframe CICS infrastructure(CICS & MQseries).
• Wellversed with CICS resource definitions online(terminals, programs,bundles etc.), defining new CICS regions etc.
• Experiencein upgrade of CICS TS from lower version to higher version.
• Knowledgeon CICS Transaction Gateway and CICS webservices and CICSplex Operations
• Experiencein vendor product install / upgrade and applying PTF for maintenance
• CICSSSL Setup Troubleshooting
• Wellversed with CICSPLEX Setup (CMAS), MRO region Setup and troubleshootrelated issues.
• Experienceand strong knowledge as a Websphere MQSeries on z/OS v7.1 / v9.0
• Installnew releases, apply PTFs to Webshere MQ on z/OS
• Wellversed with MQ Clustering and MQ Objects/Channels/Queues
• Experiencewith upgrading IBM MQ for z/OS will be added advantage.
• z/OSconnect
• zIOAinstallation and configuration

Minimum Years of Experience: 10+years of experience as mainframe DB2 System Programmer.