# IMS DB System Administrator

About the Role We are looking for an experienced IMS System Programmer to install, maintain, and support our IMS V15 environment. You will own the day-to-day health of the IMS subsystem, from installation and fix maintenance through backup and recovery, and help the business evaluate new IMS capabilities. Key Responsibilities Perform IMS V15 system programming: software installation and application of fixes. Carry out scheduled administrative activities, including system start-up and shutdown. Perform problem determination and resolution for IMS system software and related products, utilities, and tools. Define and implement policies for disk storage set-up, CPU consumption limits, and backup strategy for IMS subsystem objects. Administer and maintain IMS systems, including running backups and recovering corrupted data. Carry out research and proof-of-concept work to test new and recent features of IMS and related products, and report long-term cost-benefits to senior management on an ongoing basis. Mandatory Skills Strong knowledge of RDBMS concepts Experience with IMS software upgrades Experience with complete system-level backup and recovery IMS system definition (IMSGEN / SYSGE

- **Id**: 3812116
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cognizant-ims-db-system-administrator>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Melbourne, Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T05:38:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T23:44:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1892
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams, Engineering Services, Cloud Consulting & Migration

## Company

- **Id**: 85
- **Name**: Cognizant
- **Domain**: cognizant.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cognizant>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Cognizant Careers

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 186
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.473
- **Repost share**: 0.059
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 24
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Db2** — Optional: no
- **IMS** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **ITIL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Australia** — Iso: AU; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T14:56:02Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 24
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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