Database Administrator

JR United Kingdom; Slough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the technology sector is seeking a Database Administrator to join their team. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of relevant experience and expertise in IBM DB2. Responsibilities include database management, support for application teams, and participation in recovery activities. This is a permanent position that allows hybrid work arrangements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a DB2 Database Administrator.
• Hands-on experience in DBA activities.
• Experience in operational 24x7 support.

Responsibilities

• Providing solutions to application teams.
• Working on logical and physical partitioning databases.
• Involved in DB2 V10 upgrade.

Skills

Unix/Linux skills

DBA DB2

Operating Systems

Database: DB2 on open systems

Education

Certified IBM DB2 DBA or equivalent experience

Tools

db2top

db2advise

db2pd

db2dart

db2look

db2support

SPUFI

QMF

QREP

Job description

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Qualient Technology Solutions UK Limited

Location:

Slough, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Views:

3

Posted:

31.05.2025

Expiry Date:

15.07.2025

Job Description:

Role Title: Database Administration

Role Location: London, UK

Role Type: Permanent (Hybrid)

Key points: Need Unix/Linux skills with DBA DB2

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 Data Maintenance, Authorization, privileges for DB2 access, Backup, and Recovery.
• Experience in operational 24x7 support, troubleshooting, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Result-oriented, customer-focused, with good team relationships.
• 2 years of experience as DB2 DBA on Mainframes.

Skills:

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

Responsibilities include:

• Providing solutions to application teams.
• Working on logical and physical partitioning databases.
• Data refresh in development regions.
• Involved in DB2 V10 upgrade.
• Quarterly Disaster Recovery activities.
• Database restorations and redirect restorations.
• Backup and recovery in stand-alone and DPF environments.
• Creating databases, tablespaces, tables, views, indexes.
• Supporting Windows applications like Philbert, WinSQL, NLP.
• Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Cataloging mainframe databases for open systems access.
• Resolving user issues, granting/revoking access.
• Working with partitioned tables, materialized query tables, views.
• Performing frequent restorations based on business needs.
• Table space backups and restorations.
• Supporting tools like IBM Data Studio, Rational Manager, IBM Installation Manager.
• Working with Q Replication.
• Incident and change management using HPSM.