DB2 DBA

Overview

We are a trusted Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what’s next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world including 14 of the 30 most innovative US companies, 80% of the largest banks in the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

Position details

• Role: DB2 DBA
• Mode: Hybrid (2 to 3 days to office)
• Experience: 6 to 15 years
• Job Type: Permanent role

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a DB2 Database Administrator involved in Development, Enhancements and Production Support
• Certified IBM DB2 DBA or equivalent experience
• Hands-on experience in DBA activities like implementing data maintenance, authorization and privileges for DB2 access, regular backup and recovery activities
• Experience in operational 24x7 support, best practice troubleshooting, monitoring, and maintenance
• Result oriented, customer focused with healthy relationship with team members
• 2 years of experience as DB2 DBA on Mainframes

Skills

• Operating Systems: Windows XP, Linux, AIX and AWS EC2
• Database: DB2 on open systems
• Database Tools: db2top, db2advise, db2pd, db2dart, db2look, db2support, SPUFI, QMF, QREP

Responsibilities

• Providing solutions to application teams
• Working on both logical and physical partitioning databases
• Data refresh in Development regions
• Involved in DB2 V10 upgrade
• Involved in quarterly disaster recovery activity
• Restorations of database and redirect restorations
• Responsible for DB backups and recovery in both standalone and DPF environments
• Creating various DB2 objects like databases, tablespaces, tables, views and indexes
• Supporting various Windows applications in State Farm like Philbert, WinSQL and NLP
• Involved in disaster recovery exercise
• Cataloging mainframe databases in open systems to make the mainframe databases available to open systems users
• Resolving user issues related to database
• Granting access to users and revoking it from users
• Working with partitioned tables, materialized query tables and views
• Performing restorations frequently on the basis of business requirements
• Tablespace level backups and restorations based on business requirement
• Supporting DB2 based tools like IBM Data Studio, IBM Rational Manager and IBM Installation Manager
• Working with Q Replication
• Incident management and change management using HPSM

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly promotion cycles and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

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• 7+ years of experience as a DB2 Database Administrator involved in Development, Enhancements and Production Support
• Certified IBM DB2 DBA or equivalent experience
• Hands-on experience in DBA activities like implementing data maintenance, authorization and privileges for DB2 access, regular backup and recovery activities
• Experience in operational 24x7 support, best practice troubleshooting, monitoring, and maintenance
• Result oriented, customer focused with healthy relationship with team members
• 2 years of experience as DB2 DBA on Mainframes, * Operating Systems: Windows XP, Linux, AIX and AWS EC2
• Database: DB2 on open systems
• Database Tools: db2top, db2advise, db2pd, db2dart, db2look, db2support, SPUFI, QMF, QREP

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly promotion cycles and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents