Oracle & DB2 DBA — Remote/Hybrid, Performance & DR

Kirey; Roma; Hybrid; EUR 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Challenging projects

Remote/Hybrid flexibility

Career development

Job summary

Kirey in Rome, Italy seeks a Database Administrator (DBA) with 3–5 years of experience to join an infrastructure team managing Oracle and/or IBM DB2 databases. You will ensure reliability, security and performance of corporate databases on production and development workloads, collaborating with multiple technical teams.

Responsibilities include monitoring, patching, migrations, backups, DR, performance tuning, security, and collaboration with devs on data models.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience as a Database Administrator or in similar roles.
• Excellent knowledge of Oracle Database 12c/19c or later.
• Experience with Oracle RMAN for backup and recovery.
• Knowledge of high-availability Oracle architectures (RAC, Data Guard).
• Ability to write and optimize PL/SQL procedures.
• Knowledge of IBM DB2 LUW and/or mainframe z/OS environments.
• Familiarity with DB2 tools like db2pd, db2top, RUNSTATS, REORG, LOAD/IMPORT.
• Knowledge of backup, restore and log management in DB2 environments.
• Knowledge of high-availability DB2 architectures (pureScale or HADR).
• Good knowledge of Linux/Unix and Windows Server.
• Scripting languages Bash, Shell, PowerShell or Python.
• Familiarity with networking and storage concepts in database environments.
• Good knowledge of technical English (B1/B2).

Responsibilities

• Perform routine and extraordinary monitoring of database instances, ensuring service continuity.
• Install, configure, upgrade and patch Oracle and/or IBM DB2 environments.
• Support database migration and configuration activities.
• Manage backup and recovery activities and support Disaster Recovery processes.
• Perform periodic backup and restore tests.
• Analyze and optimize database, query and index performance.
• Configure and optimize system parameters.
• Manage data security, access controls, privileges and auditing.
• Collaborate with development teams on data model definition and SQL/PL-SQL code optimization.
• Provide second-level support for incidents and performance issues.
• Perform troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of anomalies.
• Automate operational and repetitive activities through scripting.

Skills

Oracle DB

IBM DB2

PL/SQL

Linux/Unix

Windows Server

Shell scripting

English (B1/B2)

Tools

Oracle RMAN

Data Guard

db2pd

db2top

RUNSTATS

Job description

Kirey in Rome, Italy seeks a Database Administrator (DBA) with 3–5 years of experience to join an infrastructure team managing Oracle and/or IBM DB2 databases. You will ensure reliability, security and performance of corporate databases on production and development workloads, collaborating with multiple technical teams.

Responsibilities include monitoring, patching, migrations, backups, DR, performance tuning, security, and collaboration with devs on data models.