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# IBM DB2 DBA

- **Company:** American IT Systems
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Audit Trail, Databases, IBM DB2, Disaster Recovery, Monitoring of Systems, Identity and Access Management, Nagios, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Datadog, Sql Optimization, System Availability, Toad (Software), ArcSight Event Correlation, Splunk, Appdynamics, Database Tools and Utilities, Servicenow
- **Published:** July 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us04a03d80bb14f9aba699d44dce3224f9

## About the Role

* 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

## 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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