DB2 for z/OS Systems Programmer.- Hybrid Position Available In Northampton, Pennsylvania

Job summary:

Title:

DB2 for z/OS Systems Programmer•

Hybrid Location:

Bethlehem, PA, USA, Stamford, CT, Holmdel, NJ or NYC.

Length and terms:

Long term

• W2 or C2C Position created on 06/16/2025 05:01 pm Job description:
• In-person interview
• Long term project
• Hybrid

•

Description:

EXPERIENCE

Minimum 10 years as a DB2 for z/OS Systems Programmer. Sr. DB2 zOS Systems Programmer

• not a DBA
• for a 12+ month contract to hire. This is and 8am
• 5pm HYBRID (3 days/wk) in either Bethlehem, PA, Stamford, CT, Holmdel, NJ or NYC.

The ideal candidate must have a minimum of 10+ years of recent working experience as a Mainframe zOS DB2 Systems Programmer is to ensure subsystem reliability, availability, and serviceability; to provide technical expertise and guidance for both infrastructure and application design, supporting, installing/upgrades and diagnosing all DB2 and DB2-related OEM products, and performance tuning.

Desired Salary Base:

Mainframe zOS DB2

Systems Programmer Description:

The main responsibilities of a Mainframe zOS DB2 Systems Programmer is to ensure subsystem reliability, availability, and serviceability; to provide technical expertise and guidance for both infrastructure and application design, supporting, installing/upgrades and diagnosing all DB2 and DB2-related OEM products, and performance tuning. The client has a diverse computing environment. Candidates for this position must be very flexible and responsive to the changing platform. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, capable of working independently or on a team, a strategic thinker, and results orientated. He/she will be coordinating projects with technical teams in a high paced service-oriented environment and provide on-call support as required. He/she should be capable of handling high risk and high visibility situations with ease. Strong overall diagnostic and problem-solving skills, and excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.

JOB FUNCTIONS

+ Monitor DB2 system storage, memory, I/O and CPU resources, design performance improvements. + Evaluate and recommend innovative technological solutions to meet new/existing business requirements. + Perform daily checklists, review daily Db2 reports for anomalies, open service now tickets to application groups for problem resolution. + Provide timely resolution to DB2 software related problems. Work with the IBM and ISV vendor Level 2 and technical support teams to identify DB2 software related problems. + Respond to S1 calls. Evaluate all components within DB2 for stability or errors. Drive problem source identification to root cause, provide workarounds, and design preventive measures. + Create and maintain DB2 Systems SOPs and Runbooks according to the provided format. + Participate in the planning and recovery of the DB2 subsystems as part of Disaster Recovery. + Utilize ServiceNow ticketing process for change control. Complete checklists for systems tasks and submit change controls for review in a timely manner. + Manage DB2 Catalog/directory, WLM, bufferpools, zparms, PROCS, RLF, RTS. Build new subsystems or relocate existing ones upon request. + Assist in the implementation of Data Studio + debugger. + Provide technical expertise and guidance to the internal DB2 community. + Contribute to the on-going development of monitoring and trending metrics for DB2 using MainView shipped SMF database. + Manage DB2 reorgs, runstats, rebinds, PROCS, RTS, RLF, stored procedures. + Participation in writing REXX for automation/autonomics for preventative, corrective, and predictive measures for outage avoidance. + Performance tune tablespaces, partitions, indexes. Assist the application staff in preparing well-tuned SQL for the business. Understand the difference between Explain, and run-time access path determination. + Diagnose performance issues, considering data distribution, cardinality, join structures, bufferpools, and data sharing members. + Using SMPE, IBMLINK, and ShopZSeries, upgrade and apply maintenance to IBM and BMC DB2 products. + Perform project planning and management of software upgrades & product implementation to support DB2 environments. Install, support and customize licensed DB2 software and related tools (client & 3rd party vendors). + Upgrade DB2 subsystem environments to newly released versions. Receive, apply and propagate software fixes across supported DB2 platforms, using SMP/E, etc. + Coordinate maintenance and upgrades implementation with affected applications. Perform OEM problem analysis and resolution. Maintain OEM documentation + Create and maintain documentation in support of the DB2 environments. (E.g. Procedures, SOPs, Change Control, etc.). Implement advanced features/function of DB2 software (e.g. DB2 Data Sharing, native XML, etc.) + Maintain DB2 at optimal maintenance levels, apply PTFs as needed. Coordinate maintenance and upgrades implementation with affected applications. Perform DB2 problem analysis and resolution.

PRODUCTS SUPPORTED

+ BMC Catalog Mgr(ACT), Change Mgr(ACM), Log Master(ALP), MainView for DB2, Query Manager + Compuware File-Aid for

DB2, IMS

;

RDX, DS + IBM

InfoSphere Replication Server (Data Propagator) + DB2 Query Monitor (formerly Rocket

• CQM) + DB2 for LUW + High Performance Unload (formerly Infotel) + Informatica Power Exchange Would be a plus: + IBM DB2 Connect, and DB2 data sharing environment, Mainframe / DB2 secure transfers, Contact the recruiter working on this position: The recruiter working on this position is Hima Teja(Shaji Team) His/her contact number is +(1) (202) 6290353 His/her contact email is teja@msysinc.

com Our recruiters will be more than happy to help you to get this contract.