Job title : Database Administrator Mainframe – DB2
Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg
Deadline : November 01, 2024
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Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain business database objects within a Mainframe Z/OS and DB2 subsystem.
- Perform database tuning to ensure the DBMS functions at optimal levels.
- Schedule database maintenance tasks.
- Troubleshoot database and DBMS errors and provide solutions to support business when required.
- Provide input and implement operational and business strategies, and industry best practices and ensure necessary ITO governance is in place.
- Perform database monitoring and notification to ensure optimal data access, to support business database applications in line with contractual agreements.
- Perform a database consultation role and provide design solutions to Business Development and Service Management to support initiatives when required for current and future projects.
- Be an integral part of the disaster recovery (DR) team which designs, performs and documents disaster recovery procedures.
- Service all incidents, changes and requests and ensure that SLAs are met.
- Enforce security standards to prevent data from being compromised and to maintain database integrity.
- Provide managerial reports of database utility, capacity, and utilisation for them to make informed decisions.
- Maintain relationships with suppliers for incident handling.
Minimum Requirements:
- IT degree or equivalent Industry accreditation preferred
- 8 years within the IT industry with at least 5 of those years being an operational DBA within a large complex corporate environment
- Understanding of mainframe operating system concepts and experience in another mainframe discipline.
- Experience in participating in a DR exercise.
- Minimum of 4 years working experience on z/OS DB2 databases.
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