IBM Delivery Consultant - Mainframe Middleware -zDB2 zCICS 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

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To help achieve this win-win outcome, a ‘day-in-the-life’ in this role may include, but not be limited to…

• Working under general supervision you will be understanding clients’ main challenges and developing solutions that help them transform mission-critical IBM DB2 on z/OS for hybrid cloud environments with stability, security, and agility.
• Participating in planning, installing, configuring, maintaining, verifying, and administering, IBM DB2 on z/OS
• Be a hands-on person and deliver and Involve in product installation/ configurations, troubleshooting (performance, 3rd party integrations, security)
• Based on customer requirements, deliver the deployment
• DB2 on z/OS Administration: DB2 objects backups and recoveries, load and unload data, operation on tables and tables space
• Performance Optimization: Monitor and optimize the performance of DB2. Diagnose and resolve performance related issues.
• Maintenance and Upgrades: Perform routine system maintenance tasks, including DBA role and Hiper/PE review. Plan and execute upgrades to newer versions of DB2/DB2 data sharing for z/OS.
• User Support: Provide technical support to end-users and address their inquiries or issues related to DB2 on z/OS
• Conduct user training sessions as needed.
• Monitoring and Reporting: Implement monitoring tools to track DB2 / System health and performance using DB2 PE, OMEGAMON for DB. Generate reports on DB2 usage, performance metrics, and other relevant KPIs.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills as you work across the client, partner, and IBM team.
• Participating in technical solution workshops

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5-10 Years of industry experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience in DB2 database administration on z/OS. DB2 Data Sharing, DB2 Admin tool.
• Applied experience with DB2 Utilities, Reorg, Copy, Runstats, Load, Unload, Recovery, ReBuild.
• Basic understanding of CICS, MQ, RACF, SMS and DB2 connect on open platform.
• Senior knowledge of relational databases and SQL.
• Experience in DB2 Performance Optimization and Upgrades
• Able to communicate effectively with mainframe application programmers.
• Understanding of document management and workflow processes.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Should be familiar with development life cycle processes, tools, concepts, and methodologies.
• Ability to work independently and lead the team of junior developers as per the situation
• Ability to guide team members on technical & non-technical issues during execution
• Experience in DB2 data sharing group is a big plus
• Knowledge in Parallel Sysplex, CICSplex is a plus
• COBOL, REXX language is a plus.
• Experience in OMEGAMON for DB2
• Good vision on solving customer issues, set proper expectations and clear/concise.
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills