Job Description
All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the Railroad Commission of Texas and may include preselection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. The Railroad Commission of Texas will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).
- Provides technical leadership and guidance to the mainframe IMS application teams and collaborates with the Mainframe Systems teams to ensure the applications are highly available. Provide DBA maintenance and development support of application databases in all environments (development, acceptance, and production). Work will involve highly advanced (senior-level) systems administration in support of agency mainframe applications and supporting infrastructure; and coordination of day-to-day system administration functions.
- Routine system administration functions to include performance monitoring, security monitoring, and maintenance
- Work includes supporting processes, overseeing and coordinating mainframe operations in the State’s Consolidated Data Center Services (DCS), and working with the Network Administration, Customer Support and Applications
- Development & Support teams to provide support necessary for day-to-day mainframe operations.
- The Worker will apply their expert knowledge and experience as a Mainframe IMS Application Database Administrator to support both the needs of the Legacy Systems as well as those for the Mainframe Transformation Team.
SKILLS MATRIX
Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
- Experience with z/OS Systems platform
- Experience with mainframe application IMS database administration
- Experience with DBRC and forward recoveries
- Experience in basic z/OS utilities: TSO, SYSVIEW and/or SDSF, JSF, Basic IBM utilities IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14
- Experience with Batch and CICS Cobol, IMS programming and problem resolution
- Experience developing and troubleshooting complex JCL
- Experience with JCL, CICS, VSAM, and TSO
- Experience writing, analyzing, and debugging REXX programs in a z/OS environment
- Experience with IMS HAL databases
- Experience with IMS Catalog
- Experience maintaining mainframe printer assignments, including working knowledge of IPPrintway
- Working knowledge of Top Secret setup, administration, and reporting
- Experience with ISPF panels, skeletons and REXX code
- Experience with ISMF storage functions
- Working knowledge of batch SFTP and FTPS processing
- Working knowledge of Informatica Power Exchange software using mainframe datasets (IMS and VSAM) as either a source or target for change data capture
- Experience with logically related application IMS databases
Rate:
Not specified
Location:
United Kingdom
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior