DB2 DBA

Persistent Systems

London

Hybrid

GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits package

Company-sponsored higher education and certifications

Flexible work hours

Insurance coverage

Job summary

A leading technology firm in London is seeking an experienced DB2 Database Administrator. This permanent full-time role involves providing solutions, managing databases, and engaging with cutting-edge technologies. The ideal candidate will have extensive DBA experience, including skills in various database tools. The position offers competitive salary, talent development culture, and hybrid working options.

Qualifications

7+ years of experience as a DB2 Database Administrator in Development, Enhancements, and Production Support.
Hands-on experience in DBA activities like data maintenance and regular backups.
2 years of experience as DB2 DBA on Mainframes.

Responsibilities

Providing solutions to application teams.
Working on both logical and physical partitioning databases.
Responsible for DB backups and recovery in both standalone and DPF environments.
Resolving user issues related to database.

Skills

DB2 Database Administration

Windows XP

Linux

AIX

AWS EC2

DB2 on open systems

Education

Certified IBM DB2 DBA

Tools

db2top

IBM Data Studio

HPSM

Job description

Overview

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.

Position 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
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 troubleshooting, 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

Responsibilities

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 standalone and DPF environments
Creating various DB2 objects like databases, tablespaces, tables, views and indexes
Supporting various Windows applications in State Farm like Philbert, WinSQL and NLP
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 the basis of business requirements
Tablespace 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
Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

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