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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # DB2 DBA - **Company:** Persistent Systems - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Artificial Intelligence, IBM AIX, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Databases, IBM DB2, Linux, Disaster Recovery, IBM Rational Software, Mainframes, Extreme Programming, Database Tools and Utilities - **Published:** August 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815090306-db2-dba ## About the Role * 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 ## Description 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 Let's unleash your full potential at Persistent - persistent.com/careers. 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