Senior Database Engineer – DB2
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Job Description
Senior Database Engineer providing advanced database administration and technical leadership for CSG's global database products. Designing backup policies and ensuring business continuity while mentoring junior team members.
Responsibilities:
- Provides technical direction for DBMS standards such as software delivery, patch policies, database tuning, performance recommendations, and application design recommendations.
- Designs, recommends, and implements backup and recovery policies and procedures.
- Designs business continuity architecture and ensures it meets the needs of the business.
- Review new & revised business continuity process and design.
- Provides suggestions and standards for documentation that will lead to better efficiencies and information sharing within the team or across the organization.
- Provides technical recommendations for advanced database components (replication, security, clustering, and partitioning).
- Researches and analyzes available DBMS functionality and makes suggestions for implementation.
- Design standard work-plans; push for automation/efficiency; drives for compliancy to standards.
- Work as part of a team and provide 24x7 support when required; Identify and resolve complex database in a timely manner.
- Provides technical leadership on problem calls; provides focus and drive for resolution and root cause analysis.
- Opens & works tickets with DBMS vendors; helps other team members to drive vendors to resolution.
- Identifies global problems and drives to correct across the ecosystem.
- Provides options for resolution and drives to automate a solution.
- Makes design recommendations for daily operational checks, audits, and event management.
- Drives toward automation and standardization.
- Provides standards for shell scripting and ensures scripts are written to standard.
- Writes complex shell scripting and reusable components.
- Makes suggestions for standards across the enterprise, including automation & efficiencies.
- Mentors & trains junior team members.
- Provides technical leadership for the DBA team.
- Works with cross-functional teams on designing high-performance database solutions for the value stream and platforms.
- Ability to understand all system and application level concepts/components for a given value stream.
Requirements:
- Associates/Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
- 7-10 years of database administration experience
- Experience with multiple OS platforms (z/OS, Exadata, Linux, Windows)
- Experience with a variety of database implementations & applications in a production environment.
- Experience and knowledge on concepts such as OS (i.e. z/OS, *NIX, Intel, Linux), storage (SMS, SAN, NAS, DA), Network, LAN, WAN and TCIP/IP, Virtual environments, Cloud computing
- Preferred: Experience with mainframe z/OS interfaces, monitors, security, tools
- Experience with Enterprise Agility methodologies and demonstrated experience, experience with SAFe and DevOps
Benefits:
- Work from Home
- Employee Belonging Groups
- Healthcare: Dental, Medical, and Vision
- Paid Vacation, Volunteer, and Holiday Time Off
- And so much more!
















