DB2 Database Admin (DBA)

Title: DB2 Database Admin (DBA)

Location: Romania (Remote)

Long Term Contract.

Job Description:

The DB2 DBA (SME) is responsible for the end-to-end management of database services supporting Client Continental Europe’s infrastructure. This includes overseeing all aspects of database operations such as provisioning, configuration, patching, backup, disaster recovery, and performance optimization for DB2 environments. The SME will lead incident resolution, conduct root cause analysis, and manage escalations for database-related issues, ensuring strict compliance with operational standards and regulatory requirements.

Additionally, the role involves contributing to capacity planning, change management, and audit readiness while maintaining high availability and resilience of critical database systems.

• Security Patching and Vulnerability Management - Maintain all database servers with up-to-date security patches and version standardized for the banking environment
• Incident Management – Restore the interruption to database services - Diagnose and resolve database performance issues, connectivity failures, deadlocks, corruption, and resource bottlenecks.
• Change Management - Assist application and infrastructure owners to maintain the compliance of their databases by providing support for manual patching and standby support for automated patching
• Problem Management – Analyses the incidents and solve problems by providing permanent solution
• Backup & Restore – Implement backup and recovery using appropriate tools, Perform hot/cold backups, replication setup, log management
• Disaster Recovery - Conduct disaster recovery testing as per the DR plans to comply with regulatory requirements
• Capacity & Performance Monitoring and Maintenance - Manage tablespace growth, storage allocation & overall capacity planning, Tune SQL queries, indexes, and database parameters
• Job Monitoring - Monitor Jobs and system performance
• Health Checks and Housekeeping
• Compliance and Audit Support
• Configuration Management
• Documentation Maintenance – Update Team Documentations
• Vendor & License Management
• Provide 7x24 on-call support in a roster basis

Mandatory skills :

• Security Patching and Vulnerability Management - Maintain all database servers with up-to-date security patches and version standardized for the banking environment
• Incident Management – Restore the interruption to database services - Diagnose and resolve database performance issues, connectivity failures, deadlocks, corruption, and resource bottlenecks.
• Change Management - Assist application and infrastructure owners to maintain the compliance of their databases by providing support for manual patching and standby support for automated patching
• Problem Management – Analyze the incidents and solve problems by providing permanent solution.

Desired skills :

• Disaster Recovery - Conduct disaster recovery testing as per the DR plans to comply with regulatory requirements
• Capacity & Performance Monitoring and Maintenance - Manage tablespace growth, storage allocation & overall capacity planning, Tune SQL queries, indexes, and database parameters
• Job Monitoring - Monitor Jobs and system performance
• Health Checks and Housekeeping
• Compliance and Audit Support
• Configuration Management
• Documentation Maintenance – Update Team Documentations
• Vendor & License Management
• Provide 7x24 on-call support in a roster basis .