DB2 DBA

Washington, DC, us on site Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 27, 2025 Last posted March 27, 2025
Job description

The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Workila, and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

Tasks

  • Provide day-to-day database support for the CCTI/CCP data warehouse environment
  • Assist with troubleshooting of system and application performance related issues and recommend fixes.
  • Provide support for data replication between production site and disaster recovery site
  • Provide support for performance testing the CAE and CCP applications
  • Other duties as assigned.
  • Projected Level of Effort
Skills
  • Ability to work off-hours and weekends when necessary
  • 3 – 5 years of hands-on DB2 UDB experience in an AIX environment
  • Realistic, practical, real world database administration skills/experience
  • Experience reviewing SQL to address performance problems
  • Strong Unix skills
  • Command line processing
  • Reading, writing, executing, troubleshooting user scripts
  • Microsoft Office experience in, at a minimum, Outlook, WORD, Excel
  • Comfortable receiving instructions from lead DBA and then working independantly
  • The internal drive, intellectual curiosity, ability to learn, and desire to help the customers succeed
  • Strong technical skills
  • Comfortable working under Project Manager supervision
  • Ability to work proactively
  • Experience, from a database perspective, dealing with Websphere Application Sever, HTTP Server, MQSeries and Cognos
  • Understanding of database backup processes and recovery processes
  • Experience with Q-Replication
  • Experience in Performance monitoring/testing COGNOS applications
  • Experience with DPF (Data Partitioning Facility). This is physical partitioning, not logical partitioning (Range Partitioning)

Software:

  • DB2 LUW on AIX
  • Unix scripting
  • Microsoft Suite
  • EMC DDBoost familiarity

571-403-0435

About this role

Summary

Manage and support DB2 databases, optimize performance, and handle data replication and recovery.

Job title

DB2 DBA

Experience level

3-5 years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Washington, DC, US; on-site work required

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

DB2 UDBAIXSQL reviewUnix skillsQ-Replicationbackup and recoveryperformance monitoringData Partitioning Facility

Preferred skills

Websphere Application ServerHTTP ServerMQSeriesCognosEMC DDBoost

Specializations

DB2 UDBAIXperformance tuningdata replicationUnix scripting
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Washington, DC, USA

On-site City