L3 Database Administrator (DBA) DB2

Role: L3 Database Administrator (DBA) DB2

Experience: 8-12 years

Support Model: 24/7

Skills & Experience

• Extensive hands on experience administering IBM Db2 (LUW / distributed) production estates, supporting mission critical workloads within tiered service expectations.
• Deep expertise in Db2 High Availability and Disaster Recovery operations, including failover readiness, replication/standby health, and DR execution aligned to strict recovery objectives.
• Proven ownership of Sev 1 / Sev 2 incidents, including rapid triage, service restoration, major incident bridge participation, and leading RCA with preventive actions.
• Advanced Db2 performance engineering skills, including SQL optimization, locking/concurrency troubleshooting, memory/buffer pool concepts, and capacity/growth forecasting.
• Demonstrated capability in backup, restore, and recoverability assurance, including restore testing, remediation of backup/restore issues, and audit ready recovery evidence.
• Hands on proficiency with enterprise monitoring and observability tooling such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Nagios, using telemetry to isolate DB vs app vs infra issues.
• Strong experience with DB/platform tools used in scope, including DBeaver, Toad, Foglight, and ITOC for administration, diagnostics, and operational consistency.
• Ability to analyze repetitive operational patterns (access, provisioning, backup/restore, patching, batch failures) and drive automation and standardization opportunities to reduce run effort.
• Experience operating in security and compliance driven environments, supporting access governance, audit logging, encryption expectations, and backup/DR compliance evidence.
• Exposure to collaborating within ServiceNow AIOps / Event Manager environments (event correlation, anomaly detection, incident prediction, policy controlled automation) is an added advantage

Recommended Certifications

• IBM Certified Db2 v12.1 DBA Professional (Distributed)
• IBM Certified System Administrator (Db2)
• Windows 2019/22/ Redhat Linux 8.x/9.x
• ITIL V4