What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and a unique place international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world’s leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.
Position Summary:
Cognizant is looking for a Lead Mainframe Database Administrator (IMS/DB2) with 10+ years' experience in both IMS DBA and IMS system programming in IMS v14, 15 on z/OS. Candidate should possess strong knowledge on IMS v15 Database Administration. Requires 7x24 support experience in a large production environment. Excellent Verbal and written communication skills. Good interpersonal Skills. The candidate should have worked in a SLA driven environment. Ability to work in a flexible, team-oriented and constantly changing environment.
Mandatory Skills:
- IMS, DB2 DBA on zOS
- Experience in IMS on z/OS administration
- IMS database design and database alteration and Migration
- Experience in creation of DBDs, PSBs, ACBs
- Experience in Managed ACBs
- DASD/Tape management
- Knowledge on IMS upgradation / Migration
- Capacity Planning
- Experience in DB2 v11, v12, v13 on z/OS administration
- Strong Knowledge on ER Diagram
- DB2 database design and database alteration and Migration
- Experience in Performance Tuning
- Strong Knowledge on IMS Utilities
- 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
- Proactive monitoring in space usage and troubleshooting space management
- IMS application users management
- IMS Batch job monitoring and troubleshooting
- Security Management
- Exposure in Disaster Recovery
- 24*7 support experience in a large production environment
- Space Management
- Experience in IMS Tools (BMC, IBM HP Load, TMON IMS, Fileaid for IMS,..)
- Basic Knowledge on IMS System programming
- Should have worked in a SLA driven environment
- Knowledge on IMS database decommissioning
Roles And Responsibilities:
- Mainframe Db2 Apps Database administration
- Mainframe IMS Apps Database administration
- User Management
- Space Management
- Building new IMS, DB2 Databases and its objects
- Performance management and tuning
- DR support
Salary Range: >$100,000
Date of Posting: 20-Oct-26
Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.
For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit http://www.cognizant.com/careers. Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.
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