The Role

Within our Mainframe IMS DBA team at Kyndryl, youll be a master of managing and administering the backbone of our technological infrastructure. Youll be the architect of the system, shaping the base definition, structure, and documentation to ensure the long-term success of our business operations.

Your expertise will be crucial in configuring, installing and maintaining database management systems, ensuring that our systems are always running at peak performance. Youll also be responsible for managing user access, implementing the highest standards of security to protect our valuable data from unauthorized access.

In addition, youll be a disaster recovery guru, developing strong backup and recovery plans to ensure that our system is always protected in the event of a failure. Your technical acumen will be put to use, as you support end users and application developers in solving complex problems related to our database systems.

As a key player on the team, youll implement policies and procedures to safeguard our data from external threats. You will also conduct capacity planning and growth projections based on usage, ensuring that our system is always scalable to meet our business needs.

Youll be a strategic partner, working closely with various teams to coordinate systematic database project plans that align with our organizational goals. Your contributions will not go unnoticed - youll have the opportunity to propose and implement enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system, enabling us to deliver world-class services to our customers.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, implement, and maintain IMS databases (Full Function, HALDB, Fast Path/DEDB)

- Manage database organization, allocation, and space management

- Administer DBRC, including recovery, restart, and logging processes

- Perform database tuning (buffer usage, access paths, HIDAM/HDAM optimization)

- Execute and support backup, recovery,



and disaster recovery procedures

- Support database reorgs, loads, unloads, and utilities

- Monitor and resolve database performance and integrity issues

- Collaborate with IMS system programmers and application teams

- Support data sharing environments and high availability configurations

- Maintain database documentation, standards, and procedures

Who You Are

You're valuable at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you re open and borderless naturally inclusive in how you work with others.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

- 7+ Years of experience as a Mainframe IMS DBA SME

- Knowledge of security configurations, workload management, and automation scripting.

- Monitor system performance availability, implementing necessary tuning

- Perform system backups, recovery, and troubleshooting for IMS DBA issues

- Hands-on expertise with DBRC and IMS utilities

- Knowledge of z/OS utilities

- Strong experience with IMS database structures and access methods

- Develop automation scripts for monitoring, alerting, and issue resolution

- Ensure security compliance and implement security best practices for IMS

- Design clustering and workload balancing for high availability.

- Support on-call rotations for extended-hour coverage

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

- HALDB partitioning and large database management

- Parallel Sysplex / IMS data sharing

- IMS tools (e.g., IBM IMS Tools, IMS FILE manager for IMS)

- Exposure to automation (REXX)

- Knowledge of z/OS storage and dataset management

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📌 Mainframe IMS DBA Professional (Telangana)
🏢 Kyndryl
📍 Telangana