DB2 DBA

Persistent Systems; England; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology firm is seeking a seasoned DB2 Database Administrator to provide 24/7 production support, implement data maintenance, and enhance application solutions. The ideal candidate should have over 7 years of experience with DB2, ideally including mainframe knowledge. This position offers a hybrid working model between home and the office and includes a competitive salary along with ample development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package

Quarterly promotion cycles

Company-sponsored higher education and certifications

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a DB2 Database Administrator.
• Hands-on experience in DBA activities like backup and recovery.
• 2 years of experience as DB2 DBA on Mainframes.

Responsibilities

• Providing 24/7 Production support.
• Involved in DB2 V10 upgrade.
• Monitoring tools for database management.

Skills

DB2 Database Administration

Development and Production Support

Customer focus

Troubleshooting

Education

IBM DB2 DBA Certification or equivalent

Tools

db2top

db2advise

AWS EC2

Job description

About Persistent

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
• Location : Harbour Exchange Square, London
• 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.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Providing 24 / 7 Production support.
• 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.
• Configuring HADR between servers.
• 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.
• Monitoring Tools : top, db2top, db2pd, snapshots etc.
• 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.

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.
• Annual health check‑ups.
• Insurance coverage : group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents.

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