Senior DBA: Cloud Migrations & DB2 Expert

NuAxis Innovations; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

NuAxis is hiring a seasoned Database Administrator to own availability, performance, security, and migration readiness across an IBM DB2 estate and cloud-managed relational databases in a federal IT setting in Washington, DC.

You will support migrations to AWS Aurora/RDS, design schemas, optimize queries, enforce security controls, and collaborate with developers to validate migrations and ensure high availability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a DBA in production enterprise systems.
• Hands-on IBM DB2 administration (v10.x or later) preferred; cross-training with Oracle/SQL Server welcomed.
• Cloud-managed databases experience with AWS Aurora/RDS (PostgreSQL or MySQL).
• Advanced SQL, stored procedures, performance tuning, and security hardening.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and tune production/non-production databases; proactive maintenance.
• Support migrations from on-premises to cloud-managed services with schema conversion and cutover planning.
• Design schemas, indexes, partitioning, and review performance; perform root-cause analysis.
• Maintain database security controls: access, encryption, auditing, and privileged access.
• Manage backups, recovery, replication, and high-availability configurations.
• Assist developers with data access patterns, test data provisioning, and migration validation.

Skills

IBM DB2 Administration

AWS Aurora/RDS

SQL & Query Tuning

Security & Compliance

CI/CD with Schema Migrations

Scripting (Python, Shell)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Cloud platforms: AWS

DB2 v10.x

Oracle/SQL Server cross-training

Job description

NuAxis is hiring a seasoned Database Administrator to own availability, performance, security, and migration readiness across an IBM DB2 estate and cloud-managed relational databases in a federal IT setting in Washington, DC.

You will support migrations to AWS Aurora/RDS, design schemas, optimize queries, enforce security controls, and collaborate with developers to validate migrations and ensure high availability.