IBM DB2 DBA

American IT Systems
Atlanta, United States of America
5 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Atlanta, United States of America

Tech stack

Microsoft Windows
Audit Trail
Databases
IBM DB2
Disaster Recovery
Monitoring of Systems
Identity and Access Management
Nagios
Red Hat Enterprise Linux - RHEL
Datadog
Sql Optimization
System Availability
Toad (Software)
ArcSight Event Correlation
Splunk
Appdynamics
Database Tools and Utilities
ServiceNow

Job description

Role: L3 Database Administrator (DBA) - DB2 Skills & Experience Extensive hands-on experience administering IBM Db2 (LUW / distributed) production estates, supporting mission-c…

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Requirements

  • Extensive hands on experience administering IBM Db2 (LUW / distributed) production estates, supporting mission critical workloads within tiered service expectations.
  • Deep expertise in Db2 High Availability and Disaster Recovery operations, including failover readiness, replication/standby health, and DR execution aligned to strict recovery objectives.
  • Proven ownership of Sev 1 / Sev 2 incidents, including rapid triage, service restoration, major incident bridge participation, and leading RCA with preventive actions.
  • Advanced Db2 performance engineering skills, including SQL optimization, locking/concurrency troubleshooting, memory/buffer pool concepts, and capacity/growth forecasting.
  • Demonstrated capability in backup, restore, and recoverability assurance, including restore testing, remediation of backup/restore issues, and audit ready recovery evidence.
  • Hands on proficiency with enterprise monitoring and observability tooling such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Nagios, using telemetry to isolate DB vs app vs infra issues.
  • Strong experience with DB/platform tools used in scope, including DBeaver, Toad, Foglight, and ITOC for administration, diagnostics, and operational consistency.
  • Ability to analyze repetitive operational patterns (access, provisioning, backup/restore, patching, batch failures) and drive automation and standardization opportunities to reduce run effort.
  • Experience operating in security and compliance driven environments, supporting access governance, audit logging, encryption expectations, and backup/DR compliance evidence.
  • Exposure to collaborating within ServiceNow AIOps / Event Manager environments (event correlation, anomaly detection, incident prediction, policy controlled automation) is an added advantage

Recommended Certifications

  • IBM Certified Db2 v12.1 DBA Professional (Distributed)
  • IBM Certified System Administrator (Db2)
  • Windows 2019/22/ Redhat Linux 8.x/9.x
  • ITIL V4

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