Overview
Database Administrator Jobs in National Capital Region, Philippines at Nezda Global
Title: Database Administrator
Company: Nezda Global
Location: National Capital Region, Philippines
DB2 LUW Database Administrator
Are you strong in DB2 LUW administration, performance tuning, backup/recovery, high availability, and database security?
We’re looking for a hands-on database professional who can manage DB2 environments, support production stability, and work closely with development and operations teams.
About the Company
Our client is looking for an experienced DB2 LUW professional to support critical database environments across Linux, UNIX, and Windows platforms.
About the Role
In this role, you will be responsible for installing, configuring, monitoring, tuning, securing, and maintaining DB2 LUW databases. You will also support backup/recovery, high availability setup, scripting automation, database development support, and incident troubleshooting.
This is a strong fit for someone who has handled real production database environments and is comfortable working across performance, security, DR, and operational support.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, upgrade, and configure DB2 LUW on Linux, UNIX, and Windows platforms.
- Manage DB2 instances, databases, tablespaces, buffer pools, and database objects.
- Configure DB2 registry variables, database configuration, and database manager configuration.
- Monitor database health using tools such as db2top, Data Server Manager, IBM Data Studio, Dynatrace, OEM, or similar monitoring suites.
- Tune SQL queries, indexes, buffer pools, sort memory, locking, and log file configurations.
- Analyze workloads and implement tuning strategies for OLTP and batch processing systems.
- Manage backup strategies using DB2 Native Backup/Restore, incremental backups, and log management.
- Configure and maintain HADR, TSA/TSAMP, and failover mechanisms.
- Perform disaster recovery drills and maintain recovery runbooks.
- Implement authentication and authorization using LDAP, Active Directory, or local OS security.
- Manage users, roles, privileges, trusted contexts, and audit configurations.
- Apply fix packs, patches, and security updates.
- Support developers with SQL optimization, stored procedure development, and schema design.
- Review and deploy database scripts through migration processes.
- Participate in data modeling and provide guidance on normalization, partitioning, and indexing.
- Automate administrative tasks using Shell Scripting, Python, Perl, or PowerShell.
- Implement cron-based jobs or scheduler-based DB2 maintenance tasks.
- Develop monitoring scripts for space usage, locking, and long-running transactions.
- Document database configurations, architecture diagrams, DR procedures, and operational standards.
- Troubleshoot performance issues, errors, and production incidents.
Must-Have Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with DB2 LUW administration.
- Experience installing, upgrading, and configuring DB2 LUW on Linux, UNIX, or Windows.
- Strong knowledge of DB2 instances, databases, tablespaces, buffer pools, and database objects.
- Experience in DB2 performance monitoring and tuning.
- Strong understanding of backup, restore, incremental backup, and log management.
- Experience with HADR, TSA/TSAMP, disaster recovery, and failover mechanisms.
- Knowledge of database security, authentication, authorization, user roles, privileges, and audit configurations.
- Experience applying DB2 fix packs, patches, and security updates.
- Ability to support developers with SQL optimization, stored procedures, schema design, data modeling, partitioning, and indexing.
- Scripting experience using Shell, Python, Perl, or PowerShell.
- Experience troubleshooting database performance issues, errors, and production incidents.
Good-to-Have
- Experience with db2top, Data Server Manager, IBM Data Studio, Dynatrace, OEM, or similar monitoring tools.
- Experience supporting both OLTP and batch processing systems.
- Experience creating monitoring scripts for alerts on space usage, locking, and long-running transactions.
- Experience maintaining DR runbooks, architecture diagrams, and operational documentation.
