Senior Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator

Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado  OR  Annapolis Junction, MD

Please submit your resume to be considered - Candidates need to be able to work onsite "hybrid" -

Accepting candidates who are willing to relocate.

Salary: $105,000 to $110,000 Annually - Plus Full Benefits

Security Clearance Requirements: Active DOD Secret Clearance

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• The DB2 will provide technical support for the day-to-day DB2 with HADR in AIX Power HA environment activities of the organization.
• Provide technical Support for chartered projects, e.g. Security Remediation, Disaster Recovery; coordinate changes to DB2 (version 10.5) and DB2 FixPaks in AIX and Linux
• Implement database changes to improve performance and security; plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard databases.
• Measure database performance and troubleshoot complex database and HADR issues.
• Configure and maintain system, user databases and instances in AIX and Linux environment.
• Configure and maintain schemas, table spaces, tables, indexes, buffer pools and logs.
• Configure and manage database backups and recoveries with IBM TSM.
• Provide SQL and script Perl, Shell as project requirement.
• Review project requests describing database user needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project.

Preferred Qualifications:

• IBM AIX Administration
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
• ITIL Certification

Basic Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline with 3 or more years related professional experience. (Education can be substituted for experience).
• Experienced in configuration, security, failover, and optimization of databases in high availability environment.
• Experience with various business process and system modeling tools including: Data Flow Diagrams, Process Models, ER Diagrams, Dimensional Data Models, Context Models, Event Modeling, State Modeling, Process Decomposition and Use Case Scenarios.Hands-on experience with DB2 with HADR installations, upgrades, configuration, tuning, index creation and performance analysis.
• Experience in planning and implementing fault tolerant and high availability systems.
• Hands-on experience implementing and configuring packaged real-time monitoring and alerting solutions.
• Experience with other performance monitors (e.g. Omegamon).
• Hands-on experience with automation of tools, implementations, scripting and database reporting metrics and reports.
• Heavy SQL experience writing complicated queries from scratch, tuning other’s code, analyzing impacts.
• Experience with SAN storage systems.
• Expertise in backup/recovery/fail-over methods and best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to write clear documentation of operating procedures, and ability to write detailed specifications.
• Must have a “can-do” attitude, work well in a cross-functional environment, must be able to work well without supervision and lead others. Candidate should be a self-starter, quick learner and great team player.
• Possess the ability to prioritize competing priorities and work in a cross-matrix management organization.
• Required to be on-call and respond in a timely manner.