Senior Remote DB2/IMS Mainframe DBA — Canada

Jobgether; United States; Remote; USD 66,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work from Canada

Health insurance

Wellbeing programs

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid holidays and vacation

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking an experienced DB2/IMS Database Administrator to support IBM Db2 for z/OS and IMS environments, with an emphasis on performance, availability, security, and disaster recovery. This remote role requires collaboration across teams and participation in a formal on-call rotation.

You will administer large-scale production databases, manage backups and recovery, and contribute to database modernization efforts. Strong documentation and cross-functional communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on Db2 for z/OS and IMS DB/DC administration in enterprise production environments.
• Experience with IBM Db2 for z/OS performance tuning and disaster recovery.
• Familiarity with ITIL-based operations and on-call processes.
• Strong technical documentation and cross-team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, monitor, and optimize Db2 for z/OS and IMS databases in large-scale production environments.
• Create, modify, and maintain database objects and support application/infra teams.
• Monitor health, availability, performance, and capacity; analyze bottlenecks and implement fixes.
• Execute maintenance utilities (REORG, RUNSTATS, LOAD, UNLOAD); manage BIND/REBIND and access-path analysis.
• Oversee backup, recovery, DR procedures; participate in DR exercises and BC testing.
• Resolve incidents, change requests, and runbooks; coordinate during critical situations.
• Support IMS DBRC/RECON, DBD/PSB/ACB management, IMS recovery/reorg utilities.
• Maintain technical documentation and runbooks; follow ITIL processes.
• Provide design guidance to development teams for stable, recoverable services.

Skills

Db2 for z/OS

IMS DB/DC

Performance monitoring

Backup & recovery

BIND/REBIND

JCL/TSO/ISPF

ITIL processes

On-call rotation

Cross-functional collaboration

Db2 utilities & tools

Tools

DB2 Platinum utilities

IMS DBRC/RECON

DBD/PSB/ACB management

IMS recovery utilities

SMP/E

OMEGAMON

CA/BMC Db2 tools

Job description

Jobgether is seeking an experienced DB2/IMS Database Administrator to support IBM Db2 for z/OS and IMS environments, with an emphasis on performance, availability, security, and disaster recovery. This remote role requires collaboration across teams and participation in a formal on-call rotation.

You will administer large-scale production databases, manage backups and recovery, and contribute to database modernization efforts. Strong documentation and cross-functional communication are essential.