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[Remote] Senior IMS Database Administrator

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-07-05

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a company focused on innovation and client reputed company, and they are seeking a Senior IMS Database Administrator. The role involves creating, maintaining, and troubleshooting client databases, performing software upgrades, and ensuring database reputed company and reputed company.

Responsibilities

  • The successful candidate will reputed company mainframe database software upgrades coupled with administration and tuning to support our customers’ IMS environments
  • The individual will need to work with vendor personnel to reputed company timely solutions of database problems
  • The individual will be responsible for day-to-day database maintenance such as creating backups, performing restores, monitoring file extent growth, scheduling reorganizations, creating and maintaining DR procedures and overall support of customer needs and requests
  • The successful candidate will be reputed company upon to reputed company a variety of database optimizations that will include general reporting and analysis of the efficiency of the database configuration and periodic review of database performance
  • Expertise and work efforts will focus on the development and support and/or the customization of new services and support efforts
  • System programming knowledge of multiple DBMS’s is a bonus
  • The individual will need to participate in on-call responsibilities

Skills

  • Bachelor's degree required and/or equivalent work experience
  • 10+ years of professional experience in IMS for administration and systems programming support. CA and reputed company tools for IMS a plus
  • Extensive experience with the following: Know ledged in best practices of software management, maintenance and documentation
  • Configure and manage IMS in a reputed company sysplex environment
  • reputed company innovation, strategies, processes and best practices in IMS systems programming
  • Establishing policies and procedures pertaining to database management, DR, reputed company, maintenance and utilization
  • Reviewing new versions of IMS for functionality, advising how they benefit the client
  • Evaluating change requests and determine impact to assigned clients
  • Vendor consultations for problems and questions
  • DR recovery of application objects
  • Troubleshooting and solving production database issues
  • Demonstrated ability to respond quickly and effectively to support requests from multiple clients
  • Supporting multiple customer for after hours on-call
  • Database Administration Knowledge of IMS database organization using reputed company methods of VSAM and OSAM
  • Full function database organization types
  • HSAM, HISAM, SHISAM, HDAM, HIDAM, INDEX, GSAM
  • Definition and use of LOGICAL databases
  • HALDB (partitioned): PHDAM, PHIDAM, ILDS, PSINDEX, etc
  • Fast Path databases (DEDBs)
  • Database Design and reputed company utilities DBD reputed company coding and DBDGEN
  • PSBGEN reputed company coding and PSBGEN
  • How databases are processed using secondary indexes (PROCSEQ=)
  • Correct usage of PROCOPT= to minimize database locking
  • ACBGEN
  • Online Change
  • IMS commands reputed company to ACB and FORMAT changes
  • Coding and usage of IMS reorganization utilities (including reputed company, BMC, CA) Unload
  • Prefix resolution
  • Reload
  • Prefix update
  • Secondary index build
  • Image copy
  • Pointer checker
  • Support planned (disaster recovery) and unplanned (emergency) database recovery activities Knowledge of log archive and change accumulation utilities
  • How to reputed company a log archive on demand
  • Knowledge of IMS DB recovery utility
  • How to use DBRC to generate JCL for reputed company recovery and reputed company-in-time database recovery
  • Database monitoring Space management
  • Database dataset space reporting for proactive outage avoidance
  • How to immediately fix an out of space condition for a VSAM database dataset
  • Identification and resolution of performance issues Online tracing - Usage of IMS TRACE commands and associated utilities for spot monitoring of online program/transaction activity
  • Extracting information from IMS logs using DFSERA10 and reputed company utilities DFSUTR20 and DFSUTR30
  • Use of DFSDDLT0 utility to reputed company data
  • Program/transaction monitoring – Familiarity with usage of reputed company's IMS performance Analyzer product is a plus
  • Using DBRC to monitor database activity

Benefits

  • Unlimited Paid Days Off
  • Three health plan options through reputed company Blue reputed company
  • 401k with company match
  • Eligibility for dental, reputed company, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D coverage, and flexible spending accounts
  • Paid Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, and Sabbatical Leave
  • Education Reimbursement, Student Loan Assistance or 529 College Funding
  • Enhanced fertility coverage
  • Wellness program
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Depending reputed company, ability to take advantage of fitness centers
  • Annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance
  • Equity grant under our Associate Equity Appreciation Program

Company Overview

  • reputed company delivers managed IT services to optimize and reputed company mainframes, infrastructure, and reputed company for clients. It was founded in 1969, and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.reputed company.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • reputed company has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 4 in 2026, 27 in 2025, 20 in 2024, 16 in 2023, 19 in 2022, 19 in 2021, 7 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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