Mainframe Systems Programmer​/Mainframe DBA - Los Angeles, CA; Hybrid

• Contract

• Star Tekk’s adoption of Digital Transformation is to accelerate organizational growth, increase efficiencies and help Star Workforce achieve focused business goals. The Employee will help our organization to identify and bridge the gap that exists in the business by analyzing the data, scale and support digital transformation initiatives.

We are seeking a highly experienced
Mainframe Systems Programmer / DBA
to lead and support complex database upgrade projects, modifications, installations, testing, implementations, maintenance, and enhancements of new and existing system software products.

The selected candidate will plan, install, configure, test, implement, and manage core database and software products supporting enterprise database architecture and business needs. The role may involve working with
DB2, IMS, and ADABAS/NATURAL
environments.

Required Skills :

• Manage hierarchical (IMS), relational (DB2), and file-based (ADABAS) databases.
• Plan and execute database environment upgrades and migrations.
• Monitor and verify database health, performance, and capacity.
• Provide database administration consulting to application development and operations teams.
• Perform technical reviews and evaluations of existing DBMS environments.
• Provide database design recommendations to project teams.
• Develop logical and physical database designs.
• Create physical databases and logical database overviews.
• Perform database capacity planning.
• Develop and maintain backup and recovery procedures.
• Perform database performance and space monitoring.
• Conduct database reorganizations, replication, compression, and partitioning.
• Support production database environments and complex database projects.
• IMS
• DB2
• ADABAS
• SMP/E
• JCL
• IMS DB/DC
• CICS
• ACF2
• COBOL
• REXX
• IBM File Manager
• DELTA/IMS
• NATURAL / SUPERNAT
• EntireX
• CA SPOOL
• IMS & DB2 BMC Tools
• N20/TRIM

• Minimum7 years of experience
  as a Systems Programmer / DBA.
• At least3 years of experience in a lead role
  .
• 4+ years of database administration experience
  in Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and/or Microsoft SQL Server environments.
• 3+ years of experience
  transferring, validating, and maintaining databases in cloud environments.
• 5+ years of experience
  utilizing Star Quest Stelo Data Replication software.
• Bachelor’s degree in
  Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  required.

• Assessing, planning, and migrating databases to cloud environments.
• Transferring, validating, and maintaining databases in cloud environments.
• Installing, configuring, and supporting Oracle Enterprise Edition 19c and 21c on Linux.
• Supporting Oracle databases as backends for public-facing web applications and internal data warehousing.
• Installing and configuring MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
• Installing and supporting Microsoft SQL Server instances.
• Configuring and supporting Oracle Application Express (APEX).
• Configuring Oracle gateways connecting SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL instances to Oracle databases.
• Oracle Spatial implementation and support.
• Building custom ETL utilities using cron/crontab, SQLLoader, and PL/SQL.
• Database administration including patch installation, cloning, backup/recovery, and script development.
• Windows batch scripting, Unix shell scripting, and PL/SQL.
• Troubleshooting and resolving ETL job issues.
• Setting up and supporting connectivity to remote database servers using
  Stelo Data Replication
  software.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting full and incremental data transfers.