About the Role
We are looking for an experienced IMS System Programmer to install, maintain, and support our IMS V15 environment. You will own the day-to-day health of the IMS subsystem, from installation and fix maintenance through backup and recovery, and help the business evaluate new IMS capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform IMS V15 system programming: software installation and application of fixes.
- Carry out scheduled administrative activities, including system start-up and shutdown.
- Perform problem determination and resolution for IMS system software and related products, utilities, and tools.
- Define and implement policies for disk storage set-up, CPU consumption limits, and backup strategy for IMS subsystem objects.
- Administer and maintain IMS systems, including running backups and recovering corrupted data.
- Carry out research and proof-of-concept work to test new and recent features of IMS and related products, and report long-term cost-benefits to senior management on an ongoing basis.
Mandatory Skills
- Strong knowledge of RDBMS concepts
- Experience with IMS software upgrades
- Experience with complete system-level backup and recovery
- IMS system definition (IMSGEN / SYSGEN)
- Knowledge of IBM IMS utilities, including backup, reorganization, recovery, load, unload, and pointer checking
- Creation of databases, tablespaces, tables, and indexes
- Knowledge of basic IMS or Db2 commands
- Security management and space management
- Incident, change, and problem management
- SQL performance tuning
- Monitoring DBA housekeeping jobs, and resolving deadlocks and timeouts
Good-to-Have Skills
- Change and configuration management: testing and moving updates through staging environments (ITIL Change and Configuration Management)
- Problem identification, determination, and resolution for products or their usage, in conjunction with the requestor (ITIL Incident/Problem Management)
Things to know before you apply
- Work authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
- Accommodations: If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.
- AI in hiring: We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help us screen and assess applications more efficiently. Our team performs additional human review and ultimately decides who moves forward in our hiring process.
- Open position: Unless otherwise stated, this job posting is for an open position on our team.
- Language proficiency: We ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
- Inclusion: Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
