DB2 DBA

JR United Kingdom; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company specialized in Digital Engineering as a DB2 DBA, where you will enhance and support database systems while working in a hybrid setup. With a focus on talent development, this permanent role requires extensive experience in DB2 administration and offers competitive benefits including insurance coverage and opportunities for higher education.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package

Culture focused on talent development

Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies

Employee engagement initiatives

Insurance coverage for family

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as a DB2 Database Administrator.
• Hands-on experience in DBA activities.
• 2 years experience on Mainframes.

Responsibilities

• Implementing Data Maintenance, Authorization, and privileges for DB2 access.
• Regular Backup and Recovery Activities.
• 24x7 operational support and troubleshooting.

Skills

Result oriented

Customer focused

Healthy relationship with team members

Education

Certified IBM DB2 DBA

Tools

db2top

db2advise

db2pd

db2dart

db2look

db2support

SPUFI

QMF

QREP

Job description

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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.

About Position and 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.
• Having 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 trouble shooting, 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

DB2 Admin tool, Log analyzer.

• 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 stand alone and DPF environments.

• Creating various db2 objects like databases, tablespaces, tables, views and indexes etc.

• Supporting various windows applications in State Farm like Philbert, WinSQL and NLP etc.

• 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 basis of business requirements.

• Table space 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

• 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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