- Trace, collect and maintain inventory of inbound and outbound IP traffic to selected distributed/non mainframe databases (DB2 on Linux, Sybase Greenplum).

- Monitor inbound/outbound traffic for performance opportunities. Load balancing, port sharing etc.

- Track and enforce security standards (TLS/SSL SLL, Kerberos,) for mainframe database access.

- Refresh and update entitlements for mainframe database access on schedule.

- Update and maintain driver software for mainframe database (ADABAS, DB2) access.

- Implement database turnover requests for all APG groups and application for all environments.

- Perform verification for database maintenance upgrades of driver software.

- Execute Weekend verification involving the running of the IVP/RFB and weekend checkouts for infrastructure on and off mainframe.

- Preparing for, coordinating, writing up and communicating the summary of the weekend work.

What youll bring to the role :

At least 4+ years' relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role :

- IBMs Data Virtualization Manager (DVM).

- Database - DB2/UDB, Sybase, Greenplum, MySQL, SQL server.

- IBMs JGATE middleware. USS environment.

- TLS/SSL, Encryption protocols. Port Security administration.

- Strong mainframe access methodologies.

- JAVA Script, JSON formats. Restful APIs

- Python Programming on Linux/windows.

- Linux->Mainframe X-team integration skills.

- Linux/Unix, Shell scripting

- Networking protocols - TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP .Port Security administration