Mainframe DB2 Database Administrator
Kyndryl (company site, opens in a new tab)9+ yrsChennaiOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 12–22 LPA
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About This Role
- Administer and maintain IBM DB2 for z/OS database environments ensuring high availability, performance, capacity management, and operational health.
- Perform full DB2 lifecycle tasks including installation, configuration, upgrades, performance tuning, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery.
- Investigate and troubleshoot database incidents, conduct root cause analysis, collaborate with application and infrastructure teams, and drive continuous improvements in database reliability and automation.
Minimum Requirements
- 9+ years of experience managing IBM DB2 for z/OS in enterprise production environments with expertise in maintenance, monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with DB2 utilities: REORG, RUNSTATS, COPY, RECOVER, LOAD, UNLOAD, REBUILD INDEX, CHECK DATA.
- Experience supporting DB2 subsystem installation, upgrades, migrations, maintenance (DB2 versions 11, 12, 13) and strong knowledge of mainframe environments including z/OS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, REXX, SMP/E, RACF.
- Proficiency in backup/recovery, disaster recovery planning, capacity planning, and using monitoring tools such as OMEGAMON, SPUFI, QMF, BMC MainView, and DB2 Admin Tool.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced in supporting 24x7 complex enterprise mainframe production environments with incident and problem management expertise.
- Able to collaborate effectively across system programming, application, storage, and infrastructure teams for issue resolution and continuous improvement.
- Familiar with ITIL-aligned change, release, service management practices and disaster recovery exercises or audits.