Senior DB2 Engineer (Fully Remote & Fte W/End Client)

**Permanent Hire/Fulltime Employment with our Direct and “End Client”** … a leading financial institution with sky-high reputation and affiliations / employees all over the country;.

Client is Unable to sponsors or provide any Work Visa Sponsorships

Job Title: SENIOR DB2 ENGINEER *10+ years relevant experience MUST*

Location: FULLY REMOTE – No Travel required/involved;

Annual Compensation package: Base Salary + Annual Bonus + Robust Benefits package with lowest employee contributions

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS - ***KEY AREAS

•Bachelor's degree required and/or equivalent work experience.

•10+ years of professional experience in DB2 for administration and systems programming support.

•Documented Systems Programming experience supporting spar configurations, buffer pool tuning, applying maintenance through SMP/E, and have successfully migrated DB2 subsystems to a higher Version in a Data Sharing environment.

•Understand how DB2, CICS, IMS and z/OS interact, and how DB2 supports a WebSphere application environment.

•Knowledge of z/OS Connect and other Query products

•Knowledge of TLS 1.2 and use of Secured Ports in DB2 is needed.

•Demonstrate outstanding problem determination and resolution skills working independently from any vendor as needed.

•CA and IBM tools for DB2, and other third-party vendor products a plus.

•Extensive experience with the following: -

o Knowledge in best practices of software management, maintenance, and documentation.

o Configure and manage DB2 in a parallel sysplex environment.

o Develop innovation, strategies, processes, and best practices in software management.

o Establishing policies and procedures pertaining to database management, DR, security, maintenance, and utilization.

o Reviewing new versions of DB2 for functionality, advising how they benefit the client.

o Evaluating change requests and determine impact to assigned clients.

o Supporting DB2 security requests.

o Review DB2 security to find potential risks.

o Vendor consultation for problems and questions.

o Space calculations for new objects and environments.

o Reviewing, tuning of internal DB2 buffer pools and SQL code.

o DR recovery support.

o Troubleshooting and solving production database issues.

o Demonstrated ability to respond quickly and effectively to support requests from multiple clients

PREFERRED SKILS:

•System programming knowledge of multiple DBMS

•System programming knowledge of DB2 for z/VM

•Experience integrating DB2 with distributed DBMS

•Knowledge of Informatica and the Power Exchange listener

•Supporting multiple customers for after hours on-call.

•Self-motivated and able to work independently.

•Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentations.)

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Thanks, with Regards

Amit Mustafi