DB2 Database Administrator

Job Description

Job Description:

Requirements:

  • 7+ years of experience as a DB2 Database Administrator involved in Development, Enhancements and Production Support.
  • Certified IBM DB2 DBA or equivalent experience.
  • Having 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

DB2 Admin tool, Log analyzer.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Providing 24/7 Production support.

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 stand alone and DPF environments.

Creating various DB2 objects like databases, tablespaces, tables, views and indexes etc.

Configuring HADR between Servers.

Supporting various windows applications in State Farm like Philbert, WinSQL and NLP etc.

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.

Monitoring Tools: top, db2top, db2pd, snapshots etc.

Working with partitioned tables, Materialized query tables and views.

Performing restorations frequently on basis of business requirements.

Table space 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

Salary: GBP 48000 - 72000 per year Experience: 5 years required
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