Cognizant
Location
Gurgaon | India
Job description
What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an 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: Resource will be responsible to provide support the data at rest needs of Cognizant to ensure data integrity, availability, reliability, and performance across supported databases and mainframe software platforms. He/She will also be responsible for providing ongoing software life cycle support, governance, compliance of Mainframe IMS and DB2 Databases and Data in Motion software such as MQ, Connect Direct, Power Exchange, InfoGix ACR and Optim MF Data Masking. Provide thought leadership on implementation of standard best practices, automation capabilities, process improvements, risk mitigation and mentorship to junior team members. Performance tuning and working with our customers to optimize all interactions between our systems and their applications. Required Qualifications 6-10 Years of experience troubleshooting and resolving database issues, including performance tuning and capacity planning. 6-10 Years of relevant experience required with expertise in IMS and/or DB2 databases. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Extensive experience in troubleshooting and resolving database issues, including performance tuning and capacity planning. Proven understanding of Mainframe technologies and understanding of performance monitoring tools Omegamon and CQM. Working Knowledge of Mainframe High Availability environments (Sysplex and DataSharing). Experience with database design, administration, and maintenance in mainframe environments. Experience with IBM Database Utility Suites, SPUFI, TSO, REXX Responsibilities: Responsible for design and implementation of database processes to support all functions associated with deployment, recovery, patching, optimization of IMS and DB2 platforms. Design and implement automated solutions for deployment monitoring and alerting. Manage all technical aspects of the databases and processes for maintaining the health and compliance of the software. Troubleshoot IMS and DB2 database issues, including mainframe subsystem troubleshooting of issues outages as they occur. Assist other Cognizant Mainframe Operations and Development resources on process improvements at a database and DBMS platform improvements. Design, test, implement and maintain complex databases with the required organization, access methods, access time, validation checks and security to meet or exceed requirements. Develop, edit, and maintain required documentation. Proficient in JCL. Proactively evaluate, recommend, and perform database upgrades and changes. Perform system optimization and improvement planning including, but not limited to, database performance analysis, capacity planning and system sizing. Stay abreast of and recommend improvements in technology and methodology to meet changing business needs and market demands, as well as provide for overall optimization of database administration function. Pro-actively monitor the performance of development and production databases to detect existing or potential incidents and/or performance issues. Perform tuning and maintenance to correct and prevent unplanned downtime or performance degradation. Ensure operation of database environments meet or exceed agreed upon service levels (e.g. availability and performance). Plan, schedule and manage the implementation of new databases and modifications to existing databases in a manner that avoids disruption to production and development systems. Set-up and manage database security, manage data purging/archiving activity and other day-to-day database administration activities. Provide ongoing support to operations and support teams as needed. Escalate and manage escalated issues as appropriate. 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 Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.Job tags
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