DB2 DBA

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Overview

We are a trusted Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what’s next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world including 14 of the 30 most innovative US companies, 80% of the largest banks in the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

Position details

  • Role: DB2 DBA
  • Mode: Hybrid (2 to 3 days to office)
  • Experience: 6 to 15 years
  • Job Type: Permanent role

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience as a DB2 Database Administrator involved in Development, Enhancements and Production Support
  • Certified IBM DB2 DBA or equivalent experience
  • Hands-on experience in DBA activities like implementing data maintenance, authorization and privileges for DB2 access, regular backup and recovery activities
  • Experience in operational 24×7 support, best practice troubleshooting, monitoring, and maintenance
  • Result oriented, customer focused with healthy relationship with team members
  • 2 years of experience as DB2 DBA on Mainframes

Skills

  • Operating Systems: Windows XP, Linux, AIX and AWS EC2
  • Database: DB2 on open systems
  • Database Tools: db2top, db2advise, db2pd, db2dart, db2look, db2support, SPUFI, QMF, QREP

Responsibilities

  • Providing solutions to application teams
  • Working on both logical and physical partitioning databases
  • Data refresh in Development regions
  • Involved in DB2 V10 upgrade
  • Involved in quarterly disaster recovery activity
  • Restorations of database and redirect restorations
  • Responsible for DB backups and recovery in both standalone and DPF environments
  • Creating various DB2 objects like databases, tablespaces, tables, views and indexes
  • Supporting various Windows applications in State Farm like Philbert, WinSQL and NLP
  • Involved in disaster recovery exercise
  • Cataloging mainframe databases in open systems to make the mainframe databases available to open systems users
  • Resolving user issues related to database
  • Granting access to users and revoking it from users
  • Working with partitioned tables, materialized query tables and views
  • Performing restorations frequently on the basis of business requirements
  • Tablespace level backups and restorations based on business requirement
  • Supporting DB2 based tools like IBM Data Studio, IBM Rational Manager and IBM Installation Manager
  • Working with Q Replication
  • Incident management and change management using HPSM

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Culture focused on talent development with quarterly promotion cycles and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
  • Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
  • Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Let’s unleash your full potential at Persistent – persistent.com/careers.

“Persistent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.”

Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level

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  • Full-time

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  • Industries

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Overview

We are a trusted Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what’s next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world including 14 of the 30 most innovative US companies, 80% of the largest banks in the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

Position details

  • Role: DB2 DBA
  • Mode: Hybrid (2 to 3 days to office)
  • Experience: 6 to 15 years
  • Job Type: Permanent role

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience as a DB2 Database Administrator involved in Development, Enhancements and Production Support
  • Certified IBM DB2 DBA or equivalent experience
  • Hands-on experience in DBA activities like implementing data maintenance, authorization and privileges for DB2 access, regular backup and recovery activities
  • Experience in operational 24×7 support, best practice troubleshooting, monitoring, and maintenance
  • Result oriented, customer focused with healthy relationship with team members
  • 2 years of experience as DB2 DBA on Mainframes

Skills

  • Operating Systems: Windows XP, Linux, AIX and AWS EC2
  • Database: DB2 on open systems
  • Database Tools: db2top, db2advise, db2pd, db2dart, db2look, db2support, SPUFI, QMF, QREP

Responsibilities

  • Providing solutions to application teams
  • Working on both logical and physical partitioning databases
  • Data refresh in Development regions
  • Involved in DB2 V10 upgrade
  • Involved in quarterly disaster recovery activity
  • Restorations of database and redirect restorations
  • Responsible for DB backups and recovery in both standalone and DPF environments
  • Creating various DB2 objects like databases, tablespaces, tables, views and indexes
  • Supporting various Windows applications in State Farm like Philbert, WinSQL and NLP
  • Involved in disaster recovery exercise
  • Cataloging mainframe databases in open systems to make the mainframe databases available to open systems users
  • Resolving user issues related to database
  • Granting access to users and revoking it from users
  • Working with partitioned tables, materialized query tables and views
  • Performing restorations frequently on the basis of business requirements
  • Tablespace level backups and restorations based on business requirement
  • Supporting DB2 based tools like IBM Data Studio, IBM Rational Manager and IBM Installation Manager
  • Working with Q Replication
  • Incident management and change management using HPSM

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Culture focused on talent development with quarterly promotion cycles and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
  • Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
  • Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Let’s unleash your full potential at Persistent – persistent.com/careers.

“Persistent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.”

Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Full-time

Job function

  • Industries

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Persistent Systems by 2x

Get notified about new Database Administrator jobs in London Area, United Kingdom.

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Posted: April 11th, 2026