Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The DB2 Administrator role is a remote position requiring extensive experience in supporting DB2 in enterprise environments. The candidate will be responsible for performance tuning, governance, and stakeholder management while utilizing various monitoring tools. Strong technical knowledge and communication skills are essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support DB2 (Mainframe/z/OS) in enterprise environments.
- Perform performance tuning, patch management, backup/restore, and high-availability tasks.
- Establish support governance including ticketing workflows and SLAs.
- Utilize monitoring tools for performance trace analysis.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders and manage global delivery models.
Key Skills:
- 7 10+ years of experience as a DBA/Database Engineer supporting DB2.
- Strong knowledge of JCL, COBOL/DB2 packages, BIND/REBIND, RUNSTATS, reorgs, indexing strategies, partitioning, and query optimization.
- Hands-on experience with performance tuning and high-availability concepts.
- Experience with ticketing workflows (e.g., ServiceNow) and documentation/runbooks.
- Proficiency with monitoring tools (e.g., SolarWinds, Dynatrace, Splunk).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
DB2 Administrator
Remote
Required Qualifications
- 7 10+ years of experience as a DBA/Database Engineer supporting DB2 (Mainframe/z/OS) in enterprise environments.
- Strong knowledge of JCL, COBOL/DB2 packages, BIND/REBIND, RUNSTATS, reorgs, indexing strategies, partitioning, and query optimization.
- Hands-on experience with performance tuning, patch management, backup/restore, and high-availability concepts.
- Experience establishing support governance: ticketing workflows (e.g., ServiceNow), L2 triage, SLAs, documentation/runbooks.
- Proficiency with monitoring tools (e.g., SolarWinds, Dynatrace, Splunk) and performance trace analysis.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and the ability to work across global delivery models.