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Database Analyst Senior Advisor/ DB2 Administrator

Database Analyst Senior Advisor/ DB2 Administrator

CompanyGeneral Dynamics
LocationSacramento, CA, USA
Salary$182873 – $247417
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • Database Architecture
  • Database Implementation
  • IBM DB2 Database
  • Mainframe Applications
  • Mainframe Computers
  • 10 years experience DB2 Administration
  • Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science or related technical discipline; OR the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.

Responsibilities

  • Perform many related database functions across one or more teams or clients, including designing, implementing and maintaining new databases, backup/recovery, performance tuning, and configuration management
  • Install database management systems (DBMS) and provide input for modification of procedures and documentation used for problem resolution and day-to-day maintenance
  • Responsibilities include but are not limited to: schema updates, data replication, SQL creation and analysis
  • Primary database administrator for the DB2 subsystems for the DHCS mainframe
  • Provides tuning and performance recommendations, configures, and maintains and supports DB2 applications
  • Provide technical assistance and production support to the development teams for DB2 related issues and concerns
  • Provides DB2 reporting and system information for DB2 auditing, support DB2 audit tools
  • Monitor DB2 performance and recommend tuning to improve performance
  • Also responsible for third party development tools from BMC
  • Install and configure DB2
  • Install and configure DB2 related tools such as Insight and Catalog Manager
  • Production support and problem resolution
  • Ensuring recoverability by setting up proper backup utilities and procedures
  • Production monitoring and performance analysis
  • Performance tuning which includes but is not limited to improving indexing, rewriting SQL, and restructuring DB2 or Datacomm objects
  • Database design reviews
  • Reviewing and implementing database changes such as new tables, modifying existing tables, new indexes, and creating a variety of other DB2 objects as needed by the application
  • Scheduling or running utilities to maintain optimal database organization for best performance
  • Performing database recovery when necessitated by hardware or software failure
  • Providing guidance and support and debugging expertise to application developers
  • Participating in security audits
  • Monitoring application unit testing and system/load testing in development

Preferred Qualifications

    No preferred qualifications provided.