Associate Senior Mainframe Database Administrator (IMS DBA)

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Minimum Qualifications :

• Bachelor's Degree
• Relevant Experience or Degree
• Typically Minimum 4 years Relevant Mainframe Experience
• Installation, customization, testing and maintenance of database systems within a production environment

Preferred Qualifications :

With occasional assistance of more experienced IMS DBA team members, along with the IMS DBA Team Lead guidance, continue to implement and learn IMS database concepts. Define databases and PSBs, complete IMS training courses, apply IMS training knowledge to implementation and testing of IMS database software, utilities and fixes within a test (sandbox) environment prior to production roll out. Take initiative to implement, test and resolve IMS related issues in the sandbox environment. Continue to occasionally work with assigned mentors to learn and implement advanced database administration tasks (such as resizing databases, resolving fragmentation, testing compression, implementing new segments, etc). Implement assigned projects, with migration plans when required, and verify successful implementation. Develop basic database configurations with occasional assistance, by creating database objects per specified business requirements (such as expanding database sizing, defining new clients or removing obsolete clients, reducing DASD usage by implementing compression routines, etc). Continue working with application developers to assist with issue resolution and to ensure best practices are applied to mitigate potential impacts to the various user groups and / or other database configurations. Make suggestions to Application Developers regarding processing options and copybook requests, when needed. Work closely with the Application Teams while performing troubleshooting to determine the source of application failures. Assists in the development of solutions to minimize the potential of future application failures. Work with IMS Technical Support to obtain information for IMS related issues, along with testing of potential solutions. Provide support for scheduled database back-up tasks, monitoring tasks, PSB migration tasks and other IMS DBA jobs executing by CA7-schedules. Recommend and implement automation processes to minimize routine tasks, where possible. Perform database statistic reporting on a regularly scheduled basis. Execute database recovery tasks during a disaster recovery and / or disaster recovery exercise, as well as local recoveries when needed. Monitor current usage levels of database storage to identify and report growth trends and assist in the forecasting of future storage requirements for assigned regions. Maintain and monitor assigned regions on a routine basis to prevent unscheduled database outages. With occasional assistance, continue learning techniques to apply advanced database tuning and optimization techniques to maintain database performance and processing without potential issues. Produce and maintain operational database documentation, such as IMS Disaster Recovery, IMS training presentations, Naming Standards, Performance, Tuning and monitoring procedures. Thoroughly document IMS DBA issues for oncall reporting. Continue to enroll in IMS DBA training courses (internal and external courses) and utilize the sandbox to assist with implementation of testing IMS DBA techniques to understand the concepts from the training courses.