Lead DB2 LUW DBA
Office in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Pune, Gurgaon
Database Management & Operations
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We are seeking an experienced Lead DB2 LUW DBA to take ownership of managing, optimizing, and supporting critical database environments, while ensuring seamless operations and data transformations.
Responsibilities
- Monitor, manage, and troubleshoot production database issues
- Build and maintain HADR environments, including Primary-Standby and Auxiliary Standby setups
- Oversee cross-platform database migrations, such as AIX to Linux or Windows to Linux
- Perform migrations of databases from Windows to Cloud Linux environments with HADR configurations
- Conduct regular database health checks, including DB size, HADR status, reorganization status, and log space usage
- Perform DB2 LUW version upgrades and manage installations and configurations for versions 10.1/10.5/11.1/11.5
- Execute database backups in online, offline, compressed, and non-compressed modes
- Design and maintain robust data ingestion and transformation pipelines in collaboration with stakeholders
- Optimize data pipelines for high performance, scalability, and reliability
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and traceability across environments
- Document database architectures, data flows, and transformation logic
Requirements
- 9 to 14 years of overall professional experience
- Strong expertise with DB2 LUW database administration and technologies like DPF and Blu Acceleration
- Comprehensive knowledge of HADR environments and cross-platform database migrations
- Proficiency in DB2 LUW versions 10.1, 10.5, 11.1, and 11.5, including installations, configurations, and upgrades
- Expertise in database backup strategies, including online, offline, compressed, and non-compressed modes
- Thorough background in performing database health checks and remediation procedures
- Familiarity with data pipeline design and optimization for ingestion, transformation, and scalable processing
- Solid understanding of migrating databases to Cloud Linux environments with HADR setups
- IBM DB2 certification