USM Business Systems · Minneapolis
Software Engineeringposted 120mo ago
Businesses face challenges every day building responsive and agile IT capabilities to grow and stay ahead. Since everyone has access to the same tools, your competitive advantage directly depends on how you apply technology – on the people leading, supporting and optimizing your IT initiatives. USM Business Systems, established in 1999, is an industry-leading private talent management firm, specializing in providing unique IT turnkey solutions, IT staffing solutions, and Talent management insights, enabling you to sustain a truly competitive advantage in this fast-moving environment. USM has offices throughout the US and offshore delivery centers in India. USM is a certified Minority Business Enterprise and is a CMMi Level 3 Organization.
USM is recognized as one of the fastest growing IT Temporary Staffing firms in the US and most recently was ranked #3 on the list of the Top Temporary Staffing firms in the DC Metro Area – Washington Business Journal (2016).
DB2 DBA
St. Paul, MN
6+ Months
Need GC and USC
Required Skills:
Top Three Skills:
Candidate must have lead experience (lead the environment and make decisions around strategy of the tool ie: how to best utilize the tool, how to work with business/app dev), Sr Level experience with DB2 DBA tasks, Must be willing to work across/backup on other database platforms
Job Description:
I. Job Summary
The Lead Systems Engineer is responsible for creating and maintaining databases in a corporate data services team that supports multiple database platforms, data integration, and business intelligence infrastructure.
II. Responsibilities
1. Build, monitor, and perform maintenance on DB2 LUW;
2. Member of team providing 24 x 7 on-call support to maintain .9999 availability;
3. Drive major projects and design technology strategies;
4. Define and validate DB standards;
5. Manage project intake, define scope, and provide labor estimates;
6. Mentor other engineers and coordinate daily activities and project assignments;
7. Provide security compliant database controls and reporting;
8. Provide support for physical database design;
9. Provide performance tuning and database optimization;
10. Provide technical support to IT staff for the application development and testing;
11. Assist developers in creating and fine tuning query statements;
12. Follows project management methodology in all phases of work performed.
13. Analyzes and recommends database changes to improve efficiency, lower costs, and enhance the quality of our business applications;
14. Author and validate DR plans;
15. Act as a primary point of contact to other domain leads.
III. Position Requirements
1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent;
2. 7+ years extensive technical experience in a variety of IS areas, including: 5+ years DBMS. & 4+ years UNIX.
3. Advanced experience with DB2 LUW Databases
IV. Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with DB2 HADR and Tivoli Systems Automation (TSA)
• Experience in physical data modeling with IBM Infosphere Data Architect.
• Experience with Database Administration Oracle DBMS;
• Experience presenting to technical and non-technical staff;
• Attention to detail for disaster recovery planning and testing;
• Excel in a growing, changing, and collaborative environment.
If you are interested in the below position please forward your profile to preethib@usmsystems(dot)com or call me on 703 468 0398.