Our client, a leading financial services company, is hiring a Datastage Administrator on a contract basis.
Job ID#: 80959
Work Location: Alpharetta, GA (hybrid- 3 days a week onsite)
Responsibilities:
- Experience with IBM InfoSphere installation and support guides that are consistent with IT security policy.
- Providing end to end support on all IBM InfoSphere products related issues.
- Developing new tools and processes to ensure effective use of DataStage product.
- The position will also be responsible for administrating and maintaining a DataStage shared environment across multiple domains.
- This includes:
- Designing and re-sizing the environment based on project needs.
- Installing patches when required.
- Monitoring and ensure the optimal usage and efficient performance of the infrastructure.
- The position will work with many application administrators and development teams to ensure shared environment resources are optimally utilized.
Experience:
- Provide infrastructure operations support and administration of the 11.5 and 11.7 DataStage environments. This includes setting up and testing new installations of DataStage, QualityStage and Information analyzer.
- Engineer and Install/OS upgrade Information Server product suite. Post install Configuration, various data sources configuration for the plug-ins, connectors as well as ODBC configurations.
- Document Runbooks for the installs/upgrades and Disaster Recovery plans etc…
- Stop/Start Engine services, monitor logs, setting up Security, Create/Delete projects, assigning roles, project permissions, create/modify environmental parameters etc.
- Monitor the InfoSphere suite (Data Stage/Quality Stage) servers. Kill/assist release job locks, shared memory locks, hung processes etc…
- Apply fixes, patches and service packs as required. Ensure infrastructure and application stability through preventative maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting, and implementing long term solutions.
- Capacity planning and generating forecast for new projects in the shared environment.
- Experience working with IBM support with ticketing to resolve technical challenges.
Skills & Requirements:
- Shell scripting & python scripting is a must have skill
- Support and troubleshoot production incidents/problems, optimizing performance.
- Provide technical expertise and development support for the ETL development team.
- Good understanding of ETL Best Practices in design and implementation.
- Occasional weekend and after-hours work