Senior DB2 Database Engineer - Performance & Resilience

790 IPKeys Technologies, LLC; South Dakota; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Professional Development

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc. seeks a Senior Database Administrator (Sr. DBA) to provide enterprise‑level DB2 database engineering and sustainment, including lifecycle management, schema design, performance tuning, and data integrity across environments.

The role collaborates with infrastructure, middleware, and cybersecurity teams to ensure reliability, mission‑critical availability, and seamless cross‑stack integration within a federal contractor context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; 12+ years related experience (noted in job posting).
• DB2 database lifecycle experience including design, tuning and integration.
• Ability to collaborate with infrastructure, middleware and cybersecurity teams.

Responsibilities

• Perform full lifecycle database engineering for DB2 environments including schema design and indexing.
• Administer backup, restore and recovery operations ensuring data availability.
• Maintain DB2 configuration baselines aligned with engineering changes.
• Ensure data integrity across development, test and production environments.
• Support cross‑stack integration between DB2, WebSphere middleware and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with admins and engineers to troubleshoot database issues affecting application performance.
• Develop and maintain database documentation and sustainment procedures.
• Participate in reviews, patch validation and readiness assessments for DB2 components.

Skills

DB2

SQL

Performance tuning

Backup & recovery

Schema design

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

WebSphere

Job description

Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc. seeks a Senior Database Administrator (Sr. DBA) to provide enterprise‑level DB2 database engineering and sustainment, including lifecycle management, schema design, performance tuning, and data integrity across environments.

The role collaborates with infrastructure, middleware, and cybersecurity teams to ensure reliability, mission‑critical availability, and seamless cross‑stack integration within a federal contractor context.