IBM DB2 DBA - 13+ Years of experience Required.

Role Title: Senior Database Administrator (IBM DB2 DBA)

Experience: 13+ Years of experience.

Remote Role: REMOTE ROLE

Required Skills

• AWS Relational Database Service (RDS): Mastery
• IBM DB2 DBA: Mastery
• Postgres DBA: Mastery
• Relational Database Mgmt System (RDBMS): Mastery
• SQL Server Database Admin: Mastery

Preferred Skills

• AWS Infrastructure: Mastery

Responsibilities

We are seeking a Sr. DBA with strong hands-on experience managing enterprise relational databases in AWS environments.

• The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in IBM Db2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and AWS RDS, along with a track record of supporting complex, business-critical systems.
• This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can guide a team of DBAs, set operating standards, and take full ownership of outcomes.
• The right candidate will not wait for direction.
• They will lead from the front, anticipate risks, challenge inefficient approaches, and drive issues through to resolution.
• Key Responsibilities: Administer, maintain, and support enterprise database platforms across AWS and hybrid environments, including IBM Db2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and AWS RDS.
• Responsibilities include installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, migrations, capacity planning, monitoring, performance tuning, and day-to-day operational support. Ensure the availability, reliability, security, and performance of critical database systems.
• Troubleshoot complex incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive actions to reduce repeat issues.
• Manage backup, restore, recovery, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery processes.
• Support recovery testing and help ensure database platforms meet service-level, resilience, and recovery requirements.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, cloud, security, engineering, and service management teams on technical design, architecture decisions, change planning, operational readiness, and delivery of database solutions.
• Lead and mentor other DBAs by setting priorities, coordinating work, reviewing technical approaches, and promoting consistent standards and practices. Provide clear direction during incidents, upgrades, migrations, and other high-impact activities. Identify opportunities to automate routine administration, improve monitoring, strengthen controls, standardize processes, and increase operational efficiency.
• Support database security, access management, documentation, governance, compliance, and audit-related activities.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on DBA experience in complex enterprise environments with strong practical expertise in IBM Db2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and AWS RDS.
• Experience should include configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, backup and recovery, patching, upgrades, and migrations.
• Experience supporting mission-critical systems with demanding availability, performance, security, and recovery requirements in AWS environments.
• Ability to diagnose issues across databases, applications, operating systems, networks, and cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or coordinating database professionals. Strong technical judgment, accountability, communication, and stakeholder-management skills. Self-directed, proactive, and comfortable working in ambiguous or fast-moving environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale, highly available, or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with database automation, scripting, cloud operations, infrastructure monitoring, IT service management, and formal change-control processes.
• Experience with AWS database services beyond Amazon RDS, cloud migration, infrastructure as code, and hybrid database environments is a plus.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role means stable, secure, resilient, and high-performing database platforms, along with a well-supported DBA team and strong operational discipline.

Expected Deliverable(s): DBA Doc