Senior ADABAS DBA - Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC
Washington, DC
About the Job
Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC is an award-winning minority and female owned federal government contractor committed to providing innovative, high-performing solutions to our government clients and focused on fostering a workplace that encourages growth, initiative, creativity, and employee satisfaction.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Database Administrator to join our team. The ADABAS Database Administrator is responsible for installing, customizing, and maintaining the Data Centers ADABAS Cluster Services environment and associated suite of Software AG (SAG) products.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed; meet the education and work experience required and must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. Other duties, in addition to the below, may be assigned as necessary to meet business needs. This is a remote position with a preference to candidates with an active Top Secret clearance.
Essential Job Functions:
- The Lead Database Administrator is responsible for the overall technical direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of assigned tasks.
- Responsible for the day-to-day support of large ADABAS instances.
- Responsible for Security daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly maintenance of Oracle, ADABAS instances including indexes, partitions, and patching.
- Work with the development staff to ensure the optimal query configuration and response time for performance tuning
- Planning, installing, customizing, configuring, and implementing SAG suite of ADABAS software products including Adabas, Adabas zIIP, Natural, Natural CICS, Natural TSO, Natural RPC, Natural zIIP, NET-WORK, Predict, EntireX, Adabas SQL Gateway, Natural Development Server, and Natural ONE
- Planning and executing disaster recovery for ADABAS and ADABAS related products.
- Planning, configuring, and implementing ADABAS Cluster Services and its add-on tools.
- Planning, configuring, and implementing new DBMS technologies following DCSA Change Control process.
- Planning and implementing ADABAS support for structured and unstructured data.
- Planning, configuring, and implementing ADABAS support for SQL.
- Planning, configuring, and implementing Natural under CICS, TSO, and Batch.
- Planning, configuring, and implementing Natural Security, Predict Application Control, and Predict.
- Planning, installing, configuring, customizing, and implementing ADABAS SAF security.
- Planning, configuring, and implementing ADABAS buffering of data and indexes in main memory to decrease the number of physical reads and increase database performance.
- Planning, configuring, customizing and implementing ADABAS Cluster Services.
- Planning, installing, configuring, and implementing ADABAS Online System (AOS).
- Planning, configuring, and implementing Nucleus 64-bit processing support.
- Planning, configuring, and implementing ADABAS reporting of performance and resource consumption data through SMF.
- Planning, configuring, and implementing ADABAS to comply with audits and regulatory requirements.
- Providing technical assistance to PMOs DBMS programming and systems design staff.
- Assisting in evaluating and setting database parameters.
Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field.
- Twelve years of experience in installing, implementing, maintaining and supporting Software AG products, including Adabas, Adabas zIIP, Natural, Natural CICS, Natural TSO, Natural RPC, Natural zIIP, NET-WORK, Predict, EntireX, Adabas SQL Gateway, Natural Development Server, and Natural ONE
- Recent experience implementing ADABAS Cluster Services in an IBM z/OS Parallel Sysplex.
- Recent experience with SAG suite of ADABAS software products including Adabas, Natural, Natural CICS, Natural TSO, Natural RPC, Predict, EntireX, Adabas SQL Gateway, Natural Development Server, Predict, Adabas Review, REVIEW Natural Monitor, Natural Security, Natural Optimizer Compiler, and ADABAS Online Services.
- Recent experience in maintaining Natural Authorized Services Manager and Roll Server Manager.
- Recent experience in supporting CICS Natural application in a CICSPlex configuration.
- Recent experience performing dump analysis of Natural programs.
- Recent experience in developing disaster recovery procedure for offsite restoration of the ADABAS environment.
- Recent experience in monitoring and tuning ADABAS s databases.
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Here at Harmonia we are pleased to have been repeatedly recognized for our outstanding work culture, the innovative work we do, and the employees on our team who make a difference each day. Some of these recognitions include:
- Recognized as a Top 20 "Best Place to Work in Virginia"
- Recipient of Department of Labor's HireVets Gold Medallion
- Great Place to Work Certification for five years running
- A Virginia Chamber of Commerce Fantastic 50 company
- A Northern Virginia Technology Council Tech 100 company
- Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies for eleven years
- Two-time SBA SBIR Tibbett's Award winner
- Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Certification
We recognize that every bit of our success is the result of our teams of hard-working, motivated, and innovative professionals who are proud to call themselves part of the Harmonia family! In addition to competitive compensation, a family-focused culture, and a dynamic, productive work environment, we offer all full-time employees a variety of benefits including, but not limited to
- Traditional and HSA- eligible medical insurance plans w/ Wellness Incentives for employees and family
- 100% employer-paid dental and vision insurance options
- 100% employer-sponsored STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Veterans Cohort
- Gym membership reimbursement
- 401(k) matching
- Dollar-for-dollar 501(c)(3) donation matching
- Flexible-schedules and teleworking options
- Paid holidays and Flexible Paid Time Off
- Adoption Expense Reimbursement
- Paid Parental Leave
- Professional development and career growth opportunities and paid training days
- Employer-sponsored Employee Assistance Program for employee and family
- Team and company-wide events, recognition, and appreciation-- and so much more!
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Harmonia is an Equal Opportunity Employer providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or genetics. Harmonia does and will take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. To perform the above job successfully, an individual must possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed; meet the education and work experience required; and must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. Other duties in addition to those listed may be assigned as necessary to meet business needs. Reasonable accommodation will be made to enable an applicant with a disability to successfully apply for and/or perform the essential duties of the job. If you are in need of an accommodation, please contact HR@harmonia.com.