Job Summary

As a System Administrator at Kyndryl, you'll solve complex problems and identify potential future issues across the spectrum of platforms and services. You'll be at the forefront of new technology and modernization, working with some of our biggest clients - which means some of the biggest in the world.

Responsibilities

- Install, configure, maintain, and upgrade DB2 for z/OS environments, ensuring platform stability, performance, and availability.
- Plan and execute DB2 version migrations, maintenance activities, and recovery strategies, including SMP/E, PTF, and APAR implementations.
- Administer DB2 subsystems, DSNZPARM configurations, buffer pools, storage resources, catalogs, and directories.
- Monitor, analyze, and optimize DB2 performance through tuning of subsystem parameters, SQL access paths, buffer pools, and resource utilization.
- Design and support high-availability, disaster recovery, and data-sharing environments to meet business continuity and recovery objectives.
- Manage DB2 utilities including REORG, RUNSTATS, COPY, LOAD/UNLOAD, RECOVER, and REBUILD INDEX operations while ensuring optimal execution and reliability.
- Partner with security teams to implement DB2 security controls, authorization strategies, compliance requirements, and vulnerability remediation.
- Perform capacity planning, growth forecasting, and infrastructure optimization to support evolving business and application demands.
- Develop and enhance automation using REXX, JCL, and monitoring tools to improve operational efficiency and proactive system health management.
- Lead root cause analysis and resolution of critical incidents, acting as the highest level of technical escalation for complex DB2 issues.
- Collaborate with application development teams on SQL tuning, database design reviews, migrations,



and onboarding of new workloads.
- Drive modernization initiatives including DB2 upgrades, DevOps integration, automation, observability enhancements, cloud connectivity, and mainframe transformation programs.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, operational governance, and strategic guidance to ensure a secure, highly available, and high-performing DB2 infrastructure.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

- 8+ years of experience in Mainframe z/OS system programming, with extensive hands-on expertise in z/OS installation, configuration, maintenance, and support.
- Skills in applying patches, managing third-party software and ensuring system reliability.
- Hands-on expertise in SYSRES builds, applying PTFs, performing disaster recovery drills and updating license keys.
- Proficiency in product maintenance, upgrades and compatibility checks for z/OS 3.1 and IBM z16 hardware.
- Adept at troubleshooting any system failures, freeze, job abends and performance issues.
- Willingness to provide 24/7 on-call support to resolve any system issues.
- Working knowledge of mainframe GDPS.
- Positive understanding of flip and stay disaster recovery model.
- Experience of working on many migration projects as part of mainframe modernization.
- Should provide recommendations on optimizing system performance.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

- Experience in z/OS administration.
- Experience in mainframe modernization initiatives.
- Experience of supporting the IBM z16 and IBM z17 mainframe systems.
- Any leadership and mentoring experience will be an added plus.

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📌 Mainframe zOS Systems Administrator (Bengaluru)
🏢 Kyndryl
📍 Bengaluru