Senior Db2 for z/OS DBA / Precisely Connect CDC Engineer

Job Title: Senior Db2 for z/OS DBA / Precisely Connect CDC Engineer
Duration: 6+ months
Location: CST - Remote
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Need candidate with Precisely Connect CDC experience.
Job description:
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.

Work arrangement
Yes