IMS Specialist

For one of our clients, Rendeck Automatisering is looking for an IMS Specialist.

Start: 24-05-2013
Duration: 30-11-2013
Location: Amsterdam
Deployment: fulltime
Rate: Euros 60,00 per hour (all-inclusive, ex. VAT)

NOTE:
Deadline: 24-05-2013
Please send us your CV including a covering letter (covering the job requirements), your rate, availability and any holiday plans that you might have!

Role:
Extensive description of the role and responsibilities involved
Carry out day-to-day performance & tuning (infrastructure & applications)
Advise and assist in project related activities concerning performance and tuning (infrastructure & applications)
Investigate and solve IMS and DB2 for z/OS related incidents and problems
Handle requests and answer questions from (internal and external) customers related to IMS and DB2 for z/OS
Carry out 'Business As Usual' work like healthchecks, administrative tasks, security requests
Generate ideas to improve procedures and workmethods and put these ideas into practice
Main focus is on IMS. In case of holidays, illness or high workload also DB2 for z/OS activities must be performed

Skills:
Extensive description of the required skills
Provable extensive knowledge of IMS DB & IMS TM v11 and v12 including IMS connect
Install and maintain other IBM IMS related products and Third Party Software for IMS TM and IMS DB
Provable extensive knowledge of IMS DB backup & recovery
Provable extensive knowledge of IMS TM & IMS DB & application performance & tuning
Knowledge and usage of monitoring products as Mainview and analysis tools IMS connect extensions, IPI, IPA
Knowledge of Parallel Sysplex facilities
Medium level of knowledge of DB2 for z/OS

Provable knowledge of:
DB2 v9 and v10
DB2 backup & recovery and other utilities
DB2 application performance & tuning
Parallel Sysplex and DB2 datasharing
DB2 connect and DB2 drivers

Knowledge and usage of:
products like ADB, RC/Migrator
Monitoring products as Mainview
Basic skills for related products: z/OS, CICS, MQ, and WebSphere
Basic RACF knowledge
Basic Rexx knowledge
ITIL knowledge
Needs to be able to work independently and must be analytic, completing 95% of the work without help from the team in the Netherlands. Must be proactive: must generate ideas to improve procedures and workmethods and be able to put these ideas into practice. Must be critical and have good judgement.
Fluent English speaker and writer

Experience:
At least 5 years recent experience in an IMS environment with datasharing and shared queues.
Working experience with IMS v11 or v12.
At least 2 years recent experience in a DB2 environment with datasharing
Working experience with DB2 for z/OS 9 or 10

Rendeck Automatisering is one of fastest growing service providers with many of the top 25 companies in the Netherlands as our clients.