ADABAS Database Administrator

Maveris is an IT and cybersecurity services company committed to helping organizations create secure digital solutions to accelerate their mission. Originally founded as a Veteran-owned company, we remain deeply committed to supporting veterans and proudly serving customers across the Federal Government and private sector. We have an opening for a full-time Database Security SME to join our talented, dynamic team in support of our latest government client.

Title: ADABAS Database Administrator

Location: Remote – United States

Terms: Full-time 

Clearance: Ability to obtain a Top-Secret security clearance (Candidates with a current Top-Secret security clearance are highly preferred)

Travel: N/a

Position Description 

Maveris is looking for a skilled ADABAS Database Administrator to support our dynamic technical environment.  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.

Responsibilities:  

• Oversee the technical direction, coordination, and execution of assigned database tasks.
• Provide day-to-day support for large ADABAS instances.
• Perform daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly security and maintenance tasks, including index, partition, and patch management.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure optimal query configuration, tuning, and response times.
• Plan, install, configure, customize, and implement the SAG suite of ADABAS products, including:
• Adabas, Adabas zIIP, Natural (CICS, TSO, RPC, zIIP), NET-WORK, Predict, EntireX, Adabas SQL Gateway, Natural Development Server, and Natural ONE.
• Plan and execute disaster recovery strategies for ADABAS and related products.
• Configure and implement ADABAS Cluster Services and associated tools.
• Implement new DBMS technologies in accordance with the DCSA Change Control process.
• Support ADABAS integration with structured and unstructured data.
• Configure and implement ADABAS support for SQL.
• Configure and implement Natural under CICS, TSO, and Batch environments.
• Configure and implement Natural Security, Predict Application Control, and Predict.
• Install, configure, and implement ADABAS SAF Security.
• Configure and optimize ADABAS data and index buffering in main memory to improve performance.
• Install and configure ADABAS Online System (AOS).
• Implement ADABAS Nucleus 64-bit processing support.
• Configure ADABAS to report performance and resource consumption data through SMF.
• Ensure ADABAS environments meet audit and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Provide technical assistance to PMOs, DBMS programming teams, and system design staff.
• Assist in evaluating and setting database parameters to ensure optimal performance.

• Bachelor’s Degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field.
• Ten 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.

Desired 

• Experience with AWS, Oracle, and SQL Server databases.
• Experience with data migration from mainframe to cloud environments.