Senior IBM Datastage Admin

Job Description

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day.

What makes a Worldpayer? It’s simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions to be better every day, finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We’re dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we’re determined, always staying open – winning and failing as one.

We’re looking for a Senior IBM Datastage Admin to join our ever evolving Cloud Data Platform Team to help us unleash the potential of every business.

Are you ready to make your mark? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.

About The Team

Worldpay Cloud Data Platform team provides WorldPay big Data capabilities including large scale data processing, analytics, fraud platforms, machine learning engineering, stream processing and data insights. Worldpay Cloud Data Platform team help maintain and advance cloud data platforms and services to build data products powering our business services and customers.  

What You’ll Own

• IBM DataStage product/system administration & Linux System Administration

• Expertise in IBM’s IIS DataStage version 11.x products with hands-on multiple implementations experience

• IBM IIS DataStage Server Product v 11.x hands-on upgrade experience

• Experienced in all aspects of IBM IIS DataStage v11.x systems administration

• Experience in IBM IIS DataStage v11.x Performance Tuning

• Experience in IBM IIS DataStage High availability and backup and recovery

• Familiarity with all support processes and best practices related to IBM the IIS DataStage v11.x products

• Familiarity with organizational support structure related to IBM and the IIS DataStage products

• Working knowledge Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts and varied integration technologies

• Address database configuration requests

• Perform firewall related resolutions

• Perform SSH key configuration, removal of job locks, Oracle Database Connector (ODBC) entries in DS Server

• Monitor lead time in the Server and utilization of the Server

• Monitor jobs in operations console and generate reports on job run

• Creation of tickets for any IBM issue and follow up with the IBM team

• Creation of scripts and query for monitoring and analysis

• Validation of EP Server and InfoSphere applications after Server restart

• Strong RedHat Linux systems administration skills

• Experience in Linux RedHat clustering

• Knowledge of PL/SQL scripting, Powershell/Python/Bash Scripting, etc would be preferred

• Collaborate with development teams to implement best practices for software development, testing, and deployment.

• Enhance security practices and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

• Participate in code reviews, architecture design discussions, and contribute to technical documentation.

What You Bring

• 9 to 12 years of Administration experience with IBM IIS/DataStage

• Install, u pgrade and patching experience with IBM IIS/DataStage

• Administration experience with IIS Suite tools - Information Analyzer (IA), FastTrack (FT), Business Glossary (BG) and Metadata WorkBench (MWB)

• Familiar with code migration/deployments from one environ ment to another as part of release management

• IIS Platform configuration changes, Software upgrades, new functionality implementations

• Experience with the IBM IIS command line utilities like dsjob, istools, ISALite, etc

• Production support experience (incident Management)

• Experience with tuning ETL repository and system for performance improvements

• Knowledge in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

• Experience with architecting and maintaining high availability production systems

• Experience with developing monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations, and alerts

• Knowledge of security controls fo