Description
I am currently looking for a Senior IDMS Database Administrator to work on a 12 month extendable contract for a market leading client of mine in Johanensburg, South Africa.
Duties -
- Senior Database Administrator with data security and disaster recovery experience to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives.
- Manages physical IDMS databases.
- Designs and implements back-up, recovery, archiving, and conversion strategies.
- Manages and maintains data definitions in all production and non-production databases and replication Servers.
- Manages database distribution, security, and access requirements.
- Designs and develops logical and physical layers of databases.
- Handles testing, reporting, back-up, and restores.
- Provides technical assistance and mentoring to staff for developing conceptual and logical database design and the physical database.
- Recommends, installs, and maintains database software. Monitors performance and performs database training and assists application developers with train tuning efforts.
- Design, monitor, and tune large/high volume DB2 IDMS applications to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives.
- Logical and physical database design, support distributed access, back-up, recovery, reorg, archiving, data conversion, data security, database and application training, support testing efforts and recommend and support database software.
Requirements -
- At least 6 years experience with tools, facilities and techniques for managing and administering data.
- Rudimentary coding knowledge (Java, Cobol, Rexx, etc)
- Computer operations
- Product and vendor evaluation
- Computer operations
- Product and vendor evaluation
- Database structures
- Relational and Hierarchical databases
- Performance monitoring tools
- Application Tuning
- Database utilities (both IDMS and third party)
- Technical troubleshooting
- Query and database access tools
- Information management
- Application development tools
- Application delivery process
- Data administration
- Technical troubleshooting
- IT environment
- Database backup and migration
- Database structures
- Information management