Database IBM DB2 Database Administrator (DBA)

Location: Remote

Work Authorization: US Citizen

Job Summary We are seeking an experienced IBM DB2 Database Administrator (DBA) to administer, maintain, secure, optimize, and support enterprise DB2 database environments for a large manufacturing organization. The DBA will be responsible for ensuring database availability, performance, reliability, security, backup and recovery, and operational stability across development, test, QA, and production environments.

Key Responsibilities

· Install, configure, administer, patch, upgrade, and maintain IBM DB2 databases.

· Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, and resource utilization.

· Perform database and SQL performance tuning.

· Analyze SQL execution plans and identify performance bottlenecks.

· Optimize tables, indexes, queries, memory, storage, and database configurations.

· Implement and manage database backup and recovery procedures.

· Perform database restoration and recovery when required.

· Design and maintain high-availability and disaster-recovery configurations.

· Perform database capacity planning and storage management.

· Manage database users, roles, privileges, and access controls.

· Implement database security, encryption, and auditing requirements.

· Monitor database logs, jobs, utilities, and scheduled processes.

· Troubleshoot database failures, locking, deadlocks, connectivity, and performance issues.

· Perform root-cause analysis of production database incidents.

· Support database migrations, upgrades, refreshes, and environment cloning.

· Develop scripts and utilities to automate routine DBA activities.

· Support application releases and production deployments from a database perspective.

· Maintain database configuration documentation, SOPs, recovery procedures, and operational runbooks.

· Participate in production incident, change, and problem-management processes.

Required Qualifications

· 10+ years of hands-on IBM DB2 DBA experience.

· Strong experience with DB2 LUW administration.

· Strong SQL skills.

· Strong experience with database performance tuning.

· Experience with DB2 backup and recovery.

· Experience with high availability and disaster recovery.

· Experience with database security, access control, and auditing.

· Strong Linux/Unix skills.

· Experience supporting large enterprise production databases.

· Strong troubleshooting and root-cause-analysis capabilities.

· Experience with database monitoring and performance-management tools.

Preferred certification.

· IBM DB2 certification.

Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

This is a remote position.