Technical Consultant - DB2 purescale Administrator

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities

• DB2 pureScale is an extension to the existing DB2 for Linux UNIX and Windows product. It allows you to create a database cluster using a shared disk approach. The main focus of DB2 pureScale is on scalability and high availability.
• Primary role of the person is to provide administration support.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Database Administrator should be very strong working knowledge of IBM DB2 Purescale cluster from Operational/Systems DBA to setup and support IBM DB2 LUW databases on AIX platform. Experience with Netezza Sailfish appliances is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in an IT related field or equivalent work experience.
• Looking for a Purescale SME with hands on working experience in setting up and managing Purescale clusters.
• In depth knowledge of the DB2 LUW architecture of EE.
• Experienced in installing configuring and upgrading DB2 LUW databases and Purescale clusters.
• Experience in configuring and supporting Tier-1 mission critical databases as a systems/infrastructure DBA.
• Troubleshooting Purescale cluster issues working with IBM opening PMR’s to resolve issues.
• Perform routine maintenance on several database environments including application of updates patches and hotfixes
• Creating databases migrating database objects from non-production to production environment.
• Working knowledge of Database Security mechanism data encryption obfuscation auditing using tools such as Guardium.
• Extensive experience designing and executing backup and recovery concepts and procedures
• Measure database performance and troubleshoot complex database issues I/O bottlenecks SQL Tuning/
• Experience in scripting languages (shell or python or Perl) for automating DBA administrative tasks. Ansible experience a plus.
• Experience with automation tools such as Control-M.
• Provide 24 x 7 Support to Critical production systems.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• DB2 administration certification is a plus
• Knowledge of Openshift/kubernets is a plus