Infrastructure Engineer providing technical 2nd line support in Cardiff. Join ARO's team with a focus on customer service and IT technologies.
About the role
- Senior Infrastructure Specialist (z Mainframe Db2 DBA) delivering technical support for mainframe Db2 technologies. Collaborating with teams to create and implement process initiatives for banking challenges.
Responsibilities
- Provide support for complex mainframe environments to tight timescales.
- Help drive the strategy and design across the mainframe development and test estate.
- Own and drive the zDBA technology roadmap, and work closely with stakeholders to deliver against it.
- Implement standardisation and drive improvement initiatives in the team.
- Work collaboratively across the wider Lab and Platform teams to develop, promote, and implement process initiatives.
- Ensure processes, governance, and procedures are rigorously adhered to.
Requirements
- Extensive in-depth expertise and knowledge of Db2 on z/OS.
- Expert-level experience of performance monitoring and optimisation of Db2, including SQL tuning, buffer pool tuning, with the ability to make targeted recommendations to improve service stability and availability.
- Expert-level experience of governing and approving DDL changes, handling schema evolution, validating impact, and ensuring alignment to change‑control processes.
- Extensive experience of leading the resolution and troubleshooting of critical on-line systems.
- Proven experience of communicating and translating complex technical concepts for Senior Leadership.
- Experience of supporting junior team members, providing coaching on Db2 fundamentals, performance tuning, utilities, and operational processes.
- It would be great if you also had 10+ years of experience as a z/OS Db2 DBA in a financial organisation.
Benefits
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
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