Sr. DB2 DBA

This is a contract opportunity. You will be employed by Magnit to work on assignment with GuideWell and subsidiary companies including Florida Blue.

Job Description

The Senior IT Database Administrator (Senior DBA) provides consultation related to database management and administration. The Senior DBA’s perform detailed data flow analysis ensuring the highest levels of efficiency in database and query design in distributed data flows. Senior DBA’s administer database systems to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data. The Senior DBA is responsible for maintenance, control and testing of complex databases which provide orderly methods of data storage and controlled access to data. Senior DBA’s also maintain complex query language for established database systems, design and execute backup and recovery schemes and implement disaster recovery procedures. The Senior DBA serves as a subject matter expert providing consultation to end-users and project team members on database management, query development, system requirements and database change management initiatives and providing technical guidance to other DBAs.

Consults on database, architecture and related infrastructure technologies to all areas and levels within IT.

Consults on exploiting opportunities involving multiple hardware and software systems, issue resolution, providing innovative business solutions, etc. to both internal and external customers and partners.

Provides technical leadership on the implementation of leading-edge database technologies and the design and implementation of large-scale technical solutions based on business requirements.

Develops and ensures compliance with all system, disaster recovery and security audit policies.

Writes complex programming/scripts.

Participate in disaster recovery design, testing and execution

Monitor and evaluate database performance and adjust database configuration as appropriate

Provide technical leadership to other DBAs

Design process for database change management issues related to environment migration

Make highly complex physical changes to current databases, often this requires working after hours

Maintain operational documentation (e.g., procedures, task lists, architecture blueprints)

Provide subject matter expertise to corporate projects and initiatives

Work with users and IT partners to understand requirements for a physical database design

Provide database consulting expertise to corporate projects and initiatives applying PMM and development life cycle concepts

Address customer concerns and issues related to database management

Evaluate database performance and adjust configuration appropriately

Provide production support for outages, restore/recovery events

Optimize implementation of system design in order to optimize performance and effectiveness while realizing the optimum technical issues.

Other duties as assigned.

Required (must Have)

10 or more year’s professional experience as a systems DB2 zOS databases on V11+ Database Administrator should be very strong working knowledge of Operational/Systems DBA to setup and support IBM DB2 zOS databases on Mainframe systems. Experience of db2 LUW is a plus.

In depth knowledge of the DB2 zOS architecture.

Experienced in installing, configuring, and upgrading DB2 zOS subsystems.

Experience with Netezza Performance Server database administration

Experience working with IBM on opening cases and working with them

Experience in configuring and supporting Tier-1 mission critical databases as a systems/infrastructure DBA.

In-depth knowledge of operating system zOS and hands on working experiences on zOS

Good knowledge of capacity planning and architecture design for database server deployment.

Proven experience in working in a mission critical environment in a multi-terabyte database platform, including analytics workloads.

Good understanding of data warehouse concepts including data marts and data lakes.

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.

Designing and building data models, schemas, views, and tables to support application requirements

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 using Nimsoft, Dynatrace or Datadog or other event management and performance monitoring tools.

Good understanding of licensing options and optimization.

Experience in scripting languages (shell or python or Perl) for automating DBA administrative tasks.

Experience with automation tools such as Control-M.

In-depth knowledge of IT industry database technologies and processes and business applications integrated with database technologies.

Provide 24 x 7 Support to Critical production systems.

Knowledge of Project Management Methodologies

Experience in working closely with the application development teams to resolve any performance related issues and provide application support.

Db2 tools, JCL, Perf monitoring (Omegamon)

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in an IT related field or equivalent work experience.

Preferred

DB2 zOS Database Administration Certification.

Added advantage of knowledge of administration of db2 LUW and Sailfish

Health care industry related experience.

GuideWell and its family of companies has partnered with Magnit as its Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Employer of Record (EOR) since 2018. In May of 2025, GuideWell joined Magnit Direct Source to implement the GuideWell Contractor Cohort. This program is designed to create, manage and curate a contractor talent pool for temporary contract opportunities with GuideWell. As a contractor working on temporary assignment with GuideWell, you'll be employed by Magnit. You'll have the opportunity to work on temporary projects at GuideWell companies that make a real difference in people's lives while enjoying the benefits of being part of the Magnit team.

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