Senior DB2 Database Engineer – Performance & Resilience

Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc.; South Dakota; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Immediate Vesting

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc. seeks a Senior Database Administrator to manage enterprise DB2 environments, focusing on schema design, indexing, tuning and secure, resilient data availability. You will back up, restore, and recover data while maintaining baselines and sustainment directives.

Collaborating with infrastructure, middleware, and cybersecurity teams, you will ensure data integrity across all environments and support cross‑stack integration for mission‑critical availability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years related experience.
• Experience with DB2 environments and lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Perform full lifecycle database engineering for DB2 environments, including schema design, indexing strategy, tuning, and query optimization.
• Administer database backup, restore, and recovery operations.
• Maintain and validate database configuration baselines and sustainment directives.
• Ensure data integrity across development, test, and production environments.
• Collaborate with system admins and software engineers to resolve database issues affecting performance.
• Develop and maintain database documentation and sustainment procedures.
• Participate in engineering reviews and readiness assessments to ensure performance and security expectations are met.

Skills

DB2

Performance tuning

Backup and recovery

Data integrity

Cross-team collaboration

System availability

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

12+ years related experience

Tools

DB2

WebSphere

Job description

Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc. seeks a Senior Database Administrator to manage enterprise DB2 environments, focusing on schema design, indexing, tuning and secure, resilient data availability. You will back up, restore, and recover data while maintaining baselines and sustainment directives.

Collaborating with infrastructure, middleware, and cybersecurity teams, you will ensure data integrity across all environments and support cross‑stack integration for mission‑critical availability.