DB2 Administrator

The Senior Db2 for z/OS DBA as a Precisely Connect CDC Engineer will be responsible for supporting, administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting Precisely Connect CDC replication solutions that replicate data from IBM Db2 for z/OS environments to cloud and distributed data platforms .

The role requires strong Db2 for z/OS database administration expertise combined with an expertise in Change Data Capture, transaction-log-based replication, mainframe infrastructure, security, and cloud integration.

The engineer will partner with Mainframe DBA, application and platform engineering teams to ensure reliable and secure movement of Db2 z/OS data to downstream cloud platforms.

Job Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience administering IBM Db2 for z/OS in enterprise production environments.
• Strong Hands-on experience with Precisely Connect CDC , formerly SQData .
• Understanding of CDC architecture and concepts including:
• Change capture
• Publisher
• CDC/transaction storage
• Replication/distribution
• Apply processing
• Source and target configuration
• Experience configuring and supporting Db2 z/OS as a CDC source .
• Ability to start, stop, monitor and troubleshoot CDC components.
• Ability to troubleshoot:
• Replication latency
• Missing transactions
• Failed replication
• Connectivity failures
• Capture failures
• Publisher failures
• Apply/target failures
• Schema or DDL changes
• Data consistency issues
• Experience managing CDC configuration when Db2 tables are added, changed, reorganized or removed.
• Strong understanding of Db2 for z/OS logging and transaction processing .
• Understanding of commit and rollback behavior.
• Ability to correlate Db2 activity with CDC replication issues.
• Ability to distinguish:
• Source Db2 problems
• CDC capture problems
• Publisher/transport problems
• Target/apply problems
• Experience investigating replication synchronization and data-consistency issues.
• Understanding of CDC restart/recovery concepts.