Introduction
Software Developers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design, code, test, and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today – planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe because of the work our software developers do. Whether you are working on projects internally or for a client, software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As DB2 Database Administrator, you are responsible to provide technical support with high degree of Customer Happiness by meeting Service Level Agreements (SLA) and process compliance. You will perform business impact analysis and risk assessments to reduce the likelihood of significant service outage or disasters.
Come join our team of IBM experts, who are leaders with vision, distinguished engineers and IT architects who have worked with thousands of clients to transform enterprise IT, migrate to cloud, apply automation, and ensure business continuity. We help client run their IT better, accelerate innovation and deliver unmatched performance with the power automation. DB2 specifically hands on experience on HADR environment. Hence please check with the candidate whether they have the working exposure on HADR environment along with troubleshooting exposure before sending to us for further screening.

Role and Responsibilities:
• 6–9 years of increasing knowledge of at least two technical skill core modules to include Operating Systems (AIX , Red Hat Linux , and Windows) and Middleware (MQ, WAS, Datastage and DB2)
• Basics of automation/service refinement using principles of devops and automation.
• Understand fundamentals of version upgrades and/or cloud migration.
• Basics of ITIL/process knowledge (SLA’s/KPI’s).
• Knowledge of ticketing and monitoring tool.
• Knowledge of agile principles and scrum practices.
• Knowledge and use of metrics and other objective measures.
• Knowledge of infrastructure compliance and structures to ensure they meet industry standards
• Should have demonstratable experience developing/deploying automation tools and techniques, preferably Ansible or Devops or AIOPs or Powershell.
• Develop playbooks and do process refinement to streamline processes and shorten problem resolution time.
• Should have a positive attitude and a growth mindset.

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Minimum 2+ years in IBM DB2, DB2 HADR, DB2 Tools install, configure, and upgrade
• Demonstrable experience in Support, designing, troubleshooting of above technology
• Ability to articulate best practices during implementation
• Proven experience in risk-based systems running on UNIX / LINUX platforms along with OS clustering, partitioning and virtualization
• Demonstrated experience in handling day-to-day Operation, Alert, Incident support, Migration and break-fix support
• Willingness to work in nights shifts or support 24 x 7 Coverage as per the Business needs

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• This role will require you to be hands on technical.
• This role will require you work both as individual contributor or in a team of experienced Application Server Administrators and support 24X7X365 operations, as the requirement may be.
• As this is a client facing role, there will be interaction with the clients.
• Installation, implementation, upgrading, performance, security, patching and monitoring of DB2 Database servers
• Administer, monitor, troubleshoot application server configuration and performance.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of DB2 HADR
• Timely security patching and applying support fixes as required.
• Role management and User administration.
• Space administration on application servers