DB2 LUW DBA Database Administrator

Job Description: 

Responsibilities:

• Experience with planning, documenting, and performing upgrades and migration, and setting up new database environments.
• Design and plan upgrade strategies including coordination with system administrators and developers.
• Upgrade plans must include a checklist, milestones, complete checkout, and exercised fallback procedures.
• Support Application Developers in designing, implementing, and testing database changes to support business applications.
• Assist Application Developers code efficient SQL statements, reviewing the SQL statements for performance, and making recommendations for indexes.
• Support the Quality Assurance team test applications.
• Assist other Database Administrators in maintaining multiple DB2 LUW environments, such as Development, QA, Training, and Production.
• Support Database Administrators and Systems Administrators during patching of operating systems and database systems.
• Document entity types and the relationships between entities with an Entity Relationship Diagram using Erwin.
• Ability to work during non-business hours including weekends and holidays, as needed.

Qualifications:

• Five years’ experience as a Database Administrator.
• Five years’ experience with Structure Query Language (SQL).
• Three years experience as a Database Administrator on DB2 LUW.
• Three years’ experience with Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Three years’ experience with Relational Data Modeling.
• Three years experience with Microsoft’s Outlook, EXCEL, and WORD.
• One year of experience with Erwin.
• One year experience with Java programming language.
• Experience with IBM’s WebSphere.
• Experience with COBOL.
• Experience with Hibernate.
• Experience with IBM’s DataQuant or QMF.
• Experience with Quest’s Toad for DB2 LUW.
• Experience with DBI Software’s Performance Suite for DB2 LUW.
• Experience with scripting languages, such as Perl or Python.
• Experience with Unix shell scripts, such as ksh, csh, bash, or sh.
• Experience with SQL Server, MySQL, or Teradata.
• Experience with Local, State, or Federal government.

Personal Qualities:

• Be innovative, energetic, energizing, flexible, and eager to learn.
• Excellent work ethic, attention to detail, and ability to work in a highly collaborative, collegial, multidisciplinary fast-paced team environment.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and requests.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and meet requested deadlines promptly.