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L3 Database Administrator (DBA) – DB2

Tanisha Systems, Inc.Dallas, TX🇺🇸United StatesPosted 14 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This L3 DB2 Database Administrator role offers a fantastic opportunity to leverage your extensive experience in a mission-critical environment, driving performance and ensuring robust disaster recovery. You'll thrive here if you possess deep expertise in DB2 administration, incident management, and performance tuning, contributing to a stable and reliable database infrastructure. Apply now to join a dynamic team and make a significant impact.

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Role: L3 Database Administrator (DBA) – DB2
Experience: 8-12 years
Location : Dallas, TX & Atlanta, GA (Onsite)
Support Model: 24/7
Mandate : Bachelor''s Degree is mandatory

Skills & Experience
  • Extensive hands‐on experience administering Client Db2 (LUW / distributed) production estates, supporting mission‐critical workloads within tiered service expectations.
  • Deep expertise in Db2 High Availability and Disaster Recovery operations, including failover readiness, replication/standby health, and DR execution aligned to strict recovery objectives.
  • Proven ownership of Sev‐1 / Sev‐2 incidents, including rapid triage, service restoration, major incident bridge participation, and leading RCA with preventive actions.
  • Advanced Db2 performance engineering skills, including SQL optimization, locking/concurrency troubleshooting, memory/buffer pool concepts, and capacity/growth forecasting.
  • Demonstrated capability in backup, restore, and recoverability assurance, including restore testing, remediation of backup/restore issues, and audit‐ready recovery evidence.
  • Hands‐on proficiency with enterprise monitoring and observability tooling such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Nagios, using telemetry to isolate DB vs app vs infra issues.
  • Strong experience with DB/platform tools used in scope, including DBeaver, Toad, Foglight, and ITOC for administration, diagnostics, and operational consistency.
  • Ability to analyze repetitive operational patterns (access, provisioning, backup/restore, patching, batch failures) and drive automation and standardization opportunities to reduce run effort.
  • Experience operating in security‐ and compliance‐driven environments, supporting access governance, audit logging, encryption expectations, and backup/DR compliance evidence.
  • Exposure to collaborating within ServiceNow AIOps / Event Manager environments (event correlation, anomaly detection, incident prediction, policy‐controlled automation) is an added advantage
Recommended Certifications
  • Client Certified Db2 v12.1 DBA – Professional (Distributed)
  • Client Certified System Administrator (Db2)
  • Windows 2019/22/ Redhat Linux 8.x/9.x
  • ITIL V4

Skills

SQL
Encryption
Nagios
Splunk

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