Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions.
Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.
We are seeking a skilled developer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with various technologies and programming languages.
IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.
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Your role and responsibilities
As a Database Administrator: RDBMS, you are responsible for developing application designs and providing regular support/guidance to project teams on complex coding, issue resolution, and execution.
Your primary responsibilities include:
1. Lead the design and construction of new mobile solutions using the latest technologies, always looking to add business value and meet user requirements.
2. Strive for continuous improvements by testing the build solution and working under an agile framework.
3. Discover and implement the latest technologies and trends to maximize and build creative solutions.
4. Run multiple production DB2 databases with High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) enabled across data centres.
5. Troubleshoot DB slowness and disk/Memory/CPU utilisation and suggest resolutions.
6. Troubleshoot CDC and SQL replication issues.
7. Participate in PagerDuty On-Call rotation.
8. Perform database patches and upgrades without downtime.
9. Linux Red Hat System Administration.
10. Ensure technical modifications do not adversely affect database integrity, stability, and availability.
11. Implement solutions for DB2 database backup and recovery infrastructure.
12. Monitor/maintain/upgrade the DB2 database and assist the application team with performance-tuning initiatives and builds.
13. Assisted in backup and recovery operations, including disaster recovery planning.
14. Ability to design, build and address Continuous Improvement Culture across the environment.
15. Perform database patches and upgrades, avoiding disruption of availability.
16. DBA On-Call: Respond to, diagnose, and resolve DBA pages, including but not limited to Replication failures-CDC and SQL replication (DPROP), disk space thresholds and shortages, system connectivity issues, system issues, DB crashes, DB performance issues, DB Lock issues, and other DB/System failures, i.e., DB2 backup.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
1. Mandatory Skills: LUW/Unix DB2 DBA , Shell Scripting, Linux and AIX knowledge
2. Secondary Skills: Physical DB2 DBA skills, PL/SQL Knowledge and exposure
3. Expert knowledge of IBM DB2 V11.5 installations and configurations administration in Linux /AIX systems.
4. Expert-level knowledge in Database restores, including redirected restore backup concepts.
5. Excellent understanding of database performance monitoring techniques, fine-tuning and ability to perform performance checks query optimization
6. Proven experience in DB2 Database Administration.
7. Strong understanding of DB2 database architecture and design.
8. Experience with High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions.
9. Proficiency in Linux Red Hat System Administration.
10. Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex database issues.
11. Experience with CDC and SQL replication.
12. Ability to perform database patches and upgrades without downtime.
13. Experience with database backup and recovery infrastructure.
14. Strong communication skills and ability to work with application teams for performance tuning.
Preferred technical and professional experience
1. Good knowledge of utilities like import, load export under high volume conditions.
2. Ability to tune SQLs using db2advisor db2explain, as well as, ability to troubleshoot database issues using db2diag, db2pd, db2dart, db2top tec.
3. Ability to work in a Continuous Improvement Culture.
4. Strong issue resolution skills and ability to escalate and obtain necessary resources.
5. Experience acting as a resource for Application Support teams.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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ABOUT IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
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