Database IBM DB2 Database Administrator (DBA)
Location: Remote
Work Authorization: US Citizen
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.
Key Responsibilities
• 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.
Required Qualifications
• 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.
This is a remote position.