Sr. DB2 DBAs Wanted for Pasadena, CA and Walnut Creek, CA

As one of the nation's leaders in quality health care for over 50 years, Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to enhancing health care delivery through state-of-the-art information tools and top-notch talent. The experts at Kaiser Permanente Information Technology are at the heart of that mission and you can be one of them. In this position, you will work within National Operations in Pasadena. This critically important group offers hardware and software support to multiple data centers across the nation, which operate 24/7, 365 days a year.

Your primary responsibilities are to design, develop, tune and maintain large complex physical databases within various computing environments (e.g., UNIX, NT, intranet, Web, OS/390). Ensure data recovery, data integrity, space requirement, availability and performance for physical databases are met through formulation and monitoring of policies, procedures, and standards relating to database management.

Provide a high degree of coordination between user, technical, application, and corporate entities to ensure effective database management. Above all, ensure solutions meet business objectives, and establish and maintain a high level of user trust and confidence in IT's knowledge of and concern for users' business needs. Strong client/customer relationship with varying levels of technical expertise in a high-pressure, complex environment.

You will provide comprehensive consultation to client and data processing management and staff. Your exceptional people and project management skills will be essential when participating and/or leading multiple projects across regions under high pressure and strict deadlines. You will have an opportunity to work with a variety of business units across the organization, including Health Care, Clinical and Web Development to name a few. You may also be required to instruct and guide lower level technical professionals.

A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience and 8 to10 years of experience with DB2 Database Administration is required.  Strong knowledge of mainframe and distributed database concepts. Plus technical experience in Mainframe IBM and DB2/Connect, UNIX, UDB, Oracle, REXX, Cobol, CICS, MS Windows, NT.

Find out more about KP-IT by visiting www.kp.org/jobs. For immediate consideration, please apply online or e-mail your resume, indicating source code XXX5743, in the subject line to ellice.kwak_at_kp.org and kpitjobs_at_kp.org. The benefits of working for an organization of our size and scope will change your career perspective in a healthy way. EOE. Received on Sat Oct 06 2001 - 00:30:47 CEST