Senior DB2 for z/OS & IMS DBA — Remote Canada

MainframeMaster; Toronto; Remote; CAD 129,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

DXC Technology in Canada is seeking a senior DB2/IMS Database Administrator to manage DB2 for z/OS and IMS environments. You will handle production support, object management, performance tuning, and recovery procedures, ensuring high availability and data integrity.

The role requires deep mainframe experience, ITIL-aligned incident management, and collaboration with application teams for database design and requests. Remote in Canada with on-call rotations and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years hands-on DB2 for z/OS DBA experience.
• Hands-on IBM IMS DB administration experience.
• DB2/IMS performance tuning and utilities experience.
• Experience with ITIL incident, problem, and change practices.
• Ability to participate in a formal on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day administration and production support for DB2 for z/OS and IMS databases.
• Create, modify, maintain, monitor, and tune DB2 and IMS database objects.
• Review and implement database changes required by application and infrastructure teams.
• Perform database maintenance, upgrades, and technical changes, ensuring stability and recoverability.
• Assist application teams with database design and database-related service requests.

Skills

DB2 for z/OS

IMS DB administration

SQL tuning

JCL

TSO/ISPF

REORG/RUNSTATS

Tools

DB2 for z/OS tools

IMS utilities

DB2/IMS monitoring tools

Job description

DXC Technology in Canada is seeking a senior DB2/IMS Database Administrator to manage DB2 for z/OS and IMS environments. You will handle production support, object management, performance tuning, and recovery procedures, ensuring high availability and data integrity.

The role requires deep mainframe experience, ITIL-aligned incident management, and collaboration with application teams for database design and requests. Remote in Canada with on-call rotations and comprehensive benefits.