LITTLE ROCK, AR, USA
1 day ago
Database Administrator
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Short Description:

The Database Administrator will be primarily responsible for the maintenance, enhancement and performance tuning DB2 UDB/LUW for Unix databases.  The DBA will also work as part of a team to provide DB2 DBMS subsystem management.

 

Complete Description:

Local candidates preferred, but not required.

 

In addition, this person will be required to provide after hours support, 24 x 7 on a rotating basis.

 

While DB2 UDB support will be the primary responsibility of the Database Administrator, providing maintenance, enhancement and operational support to additional DBMSs will be required. 

 

Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field

In-depth DB2 UDB/LUW Database Administration  experience (3+ years). 

DBA certifications a plus.

Database Administration Experience with DB2 for Z/OS , Optim, IBM Curam will be a plus.

 

 

Responsibilities:

•Database administration, implementation, and maintenance tasks including but not limited to:

­              -Enforcing database naming/creation/deletion standards in the Test and Production environments

­              -Establish, oversee, and optimize all database maintenance (i.e. update statistics, etc) and backup processes

­              -Enforce and implement appropriate security measures

•Troubleshoot application database issues

•Ensure the 24/7 availability and performance of the databases that support our systems, including "on-call" responsibilities

•Optimize the hardware/system resources allocated to the databases for high availability & minimum downtime

•Provide assistance to developers in DBMS performance tuning, best practices and problem resolution.

•Resolve database performance issues, database capacity issues, and other data issues

•Manage backup and recovery of databases

•Prepare, maintain and execute disaster recovery plans

•Monitor databases for errors and perform problem determination when necessary

 

Skills:

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

DB2 UDB for LUW Database Administration

Required

4

Years

Unix

Required

4

Years

DB2 for Z/OS

Highly desired

 

 

Optim, IBM Curam

Highly desired

 

 

Certifications

Required

 

 

                                

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