DB Specialist-IMS Mainframe (6+ Years)

Who are we?

Amdocs helps those who build the future to make it amazing. With our market-leading portfolio of software products and services, we unlock our customers’ innovative potential, empowering them to provide next-generation communication and media experiences for both the individual end user and enterprise customers. Our approximately 30,000 employees around the globe are here to accelerate service providers’ migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era, and digitalize and automate their operations. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $4.89 billion in fiscal 2023.

In one sentence

The DB specialist have the ultimate responsibility of physical and applicative database administration activities supporting end2end life cycle of product from database perspective

What will your job look like?

• You will support the following levels: Physical – responsible for the physical and technical oriented aspects e.g. storage, security, networking and more; Application – you will handle all application-related issues (e.g. queries, users, embedded SQL’s etc.)
• Ensure database resources are sized accurately and a design strategy is developed to make sure that the database is maintained at a healthy size.
• You will ensure availability and performance of multi database and application environments with very large volumes and sizes.
• You will perform routine DBA tasks like database maintenance, backups, recovery, table space management, upgrades, etc.
• You will execute periodic health checks for databases and recommend changes that should be executed in the production environment to ensure efficient performance.
• You will interact and work with multiple infra and IT teams as part of environment setup, maintenance and support
• You will work closely with developers, assist them with database structure design as of business needs (e.g. indexes, constraints, integrity)

All you need is...

• IMS DBA experience:
  •    IMS DB support experience with version 13 onwards.
  •    DB Objects – Experience in creating and modifying DBD, PSB, ACB, FMT.
  •    Experience with administration of IMS Full Function, HALDB, Fastpath databases.
  •    Good knowledge on DBRC, Restore, Reorg, Load IMS DB. 
  •    Experience in database initialization, forward recovery & building secondary index and pointer checker, checkpoint restart, Fast path, DEDB etc
  •    Strong Knowledge of Troubleshooting skills on IMS administration.
  •    Usage of IMS utilities (including IBM, BMC)
  •    Working Knowledge of RACF as it relates to IMS.
  •    Working Knowledge of IMS exit points and routines
  •    z/OS – TSO, ISPF, JCL
  •    Tools – FileManager, ADBUS
  •    Basic knowledge on VSAM,CICS, IMS DC

Why you will love this job:

• You will have the opportunity to work in a growing organization, with ever growing opportunities for personal growth and one of the highest scores of employee engagement in Amdocs.
• You will be able to use your specific insights into variety of projects to overcome technical challenge while continuing to deepen your area of knowledge.
• You will have the opportunity to work in multinational environment for the global market leader in its field