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# IBM DB2 Database Administrator - DBA

- **Company:** Softthink Solutions, Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Backup Devices, Databases, IBM DB2, Database Queries, Database Security, Linux, Disaster Recovery, Operational Databases, Release Management, Software Deployment, SQL Databases, Data Storage Management, System Availability, Database Optimization, Information Technology, Database Monitoring, Sql Tuning
- **Published:** August 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.wayup.com/i-j-IBM-DB2-Database-Administrator-DBA-Softthink-Solutions-Inc-268538474799658/

## About the Role

· 10+ years of hands-on IBM DB2 DBA experience.
· Strong experience with DB2 LUW administration.
· Strong SQL skills.
· Strong experience with database performance tuning.
· Experience with DB2 backup and recovery.
· Experience with high availability and disaster recovery.
· Experience with database security, access control, and auditing.
· Strong Linux/Unix skills.
· Experience supporting large enterprise production databases.
· Strong troubleshooting and root-cause-analysis capabilities.
· Experience with database monitoring and performance-management tools.
Preferred certification.
· IBM DB2 certification.
Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

## Description

Job Summary We are seeking an experienced IBM DB2 Database Administrator (DBA) to administer, maintain, secure, optimize, and support enterprise DB2 database environments for a large manufacturing organization. The DBA will be responsible for ensuring database availability, performance, reliability, security, backup and recovery, and operational stability across development, test, QA, and production environments., · Install, configure, administer, patch, upgrade, and maintain IBM DB2 databases.
· Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, and resource utilization.
· Perform database and SQL performance tuning.
· Analyze SQL execution plans and identify performance bottlenecks.
· Optimize tables, indexes, queries, memory, storage, and database configurations.
· Implement and manage database backup and recovery procedures.
· Perform database restoration and recovery when required.
· Design and maintain high-availability and disaster-recovery configurations.
· Perform database capacity planning and storage management.
· Manage database users, roles, privileges, and access controls.
· Implement database security, encryption, and auditing requirements.
· Monitor database logs, jobs, utilities, and scheduled processes.
· Troubleshoot database failures, locking, deadlocks, connectivity, and performance issues.
· Perform root-cause analysis of production database incidents.
· Support database migrations, upgrades, refreshes, and environment cloning.
· Develop scripts and utilities to automate routine DBA activities.
· Support application releases and production deployments from a database perspective.
· Maintain database configuration documentation, SOPs, recovery procedures, and operational runbooks.
· Participate in production incident, change, and problem-management processes.


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