DB2 Administrator

Mandatory skills:

• Over 3 years experience with DB2 
•Working experience with IBM HADR
• In-depth understanding of windows architecture and troubleshooting experience with the ability to analyze technical problems to prevent future occurrence.
• Experience with backup strategies and backup technologies
• Ability to work well with the team and on various projects
• Willingness to learn new things and extremely flexible if workflow is changing
• Fluent English (spoken and written)

Nice to have skills:

•ITIL Certified
• Training skills in order to mentor junior team members
• Ability to conceptualize problems
• Experience with automation tools (. Puppet / Chef etc.)
• Ability to work under pressure and remain decisive
• Proficient in at least 1 programming/scripting language . SQL
• Experience with system monitoring tools and analyzing results
• Bachelor degree, with a technical major such as Engineering or Computer Science

Job description:

• Provide DB2 support for all development, testing, and production environments

• Support Application Development, Testing, and Functional Teams with DB related issues

• Troubleshoot application related DB2 issues

• Promote DB2 related structure changes

• Support DB2 related implementations as it relates to weekend maintenance and on-call duties.

• Creation and maintenance of database objects (tables, columns, indexes, etc)

• Setup and support database utilities including BACKUP, RESTORE, REORG, RUNSTATS, EXPORT, LOAD, EXPLAIN

• Database administration experience using DB2 on Linux (or other Unix variant)

• Responsible for uptime, performance, reliability, scalability, security and high availability of infrastructure machines

• Troubleshoot performance issues, configuration and apply fixes

• Create scripts in order to automate certain tasks

• Structure, draft and review technical documentation, document technical requirements and processes