Software Engineer II Mainframe IMS App Database Admin
Location: Austin, Texas
Fully Remote
Start Date - 4/15/2025
End Date - 8/31/2025
Submissions due by 4/9/2025
This is a Software Engineer II position that will work as a Mainframe IMS Application Database Administrator. This role will work closely with the Railroad Commission of Texas.
Key Responsibilities - Provide technical leadership and guidance to the mainframe IMS application teams and collaborates with the Mainframe Systems teams to ensure the applications are highly available
- Provide DBA maintenance and development support of application databases in all environments (development, acceptance, and production)
- Work will involve highly advanced (senior-level) systems administration in support of agency mainframe applications and supporting infrastructure; and coordination of day-to-day system administration functions
- Conduct performance monitoring and tuning activities, backup and recovery as well as troubleshooting applications on IMS databases
- Routine system administration functions to include performance monitoring, security monitoring, and maintenance
- Supporting processes, overseeing and coordinating mainframe operations in the State's Consolidated Data Center Services (DCS), and working with the Network Administration, Customer Support and Applications Development & Support teams to provide support necessary for day-to-day mainframe operations
- IMPORTANT: This position is for a hands-on Application IMS DBA, not for a DB2 DBA
Years of
Experience Needed
Candidate Years of
Experience
Required or
preferred
Experience
7
Required
Experience with z/OS Systems platform
5
Required
Experience with mainframe application IMS database administration
5
Required
Experience with DBRC and forward recoveries
7
Required
Experience in basic z/OS utilities: TSO, SYSVIEW and/or SDSF, JSF, Basic IBM utilities IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14
5
Required
Experience with Batch and CICS Cobol, IMS programming and problem resolution
5
Required
Experience developing and troubleshooting complex JCL
5
Required
Experience with JCL, CICS, VSAM, and TSO
2
Required
Experience writing, analyzing, and debugging REXX programs in a z/OS environment
2
Required
Experience with IMS HAL databases
2
Required
Experience with IMS Catalog
5
Preferred
Working knowledge of Top Secret setup, administration, and reporting
2
Preferred
Experience maintaining mainframe printer assignments, including working knowledge of IPPrintway
3+
Preferred
Experience with ISPF panels, skeletons and REXX code
3+
Preferred
Experience with ISMF storage functions
Preferred
Working knowledge of batch SFTP and FTPS processing
Preferred
Working knowledge of Informatica Power Exchange software using mainframe datasets (IMS and VSAM) as either a source or target for change data capture
Preferred
Experience with logically related application IMS databases