Senior DB2 Database Administrator

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for a Senior DB2 Database Administrator for a six month contract opportunity.  The position is located in Mississauga.

What makes this Special

Our client is one of the largest Banks in North America. With exponential growth and millions of customers and clients who are served through our various businesses: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking. Being part of this company is being part of a better Canadian service.

Role

The Database Administrator’s role is to design, install, monitor, maintain, and performance tune production databases while ensuring high levels of data availability.

Responsibilities

This successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Developing, implementing, and overseeing database policies and procedures to ensure the integrity and availability of databases and their accompanying software.
• Plans, coordinates, and supervises complex informatics assignments;  designs and applies new methods and procedures; may supervise staff.
• Responsible for physical databases on specific database technologies; design and implement back up, recovery, archiving and conversion strategies.
• Maintains the integrity of databases.
• Lead or provide subject matter expertise in production and non production databases for data development.
• Manage database distribution, configuration, security and access requirements.
• Design and develop physical databases.
• Lead or perform testing, reporting, capacity planning, performance tuning, backup and restores.
• Provide leadership and technical expertise to ongoing problem identification and resolution and root cause analysis process for database environments

Requirements or Qualifications

Qualified Candidates will have:

• Strong DB2 Warehouse Edition experience
• AIX experience
• 7+ years of experience as a DBA
• Strong knowledge of and experience with Data Warehousing
• Korn Shell scripting
• SAN Technology (Storage Area Network)
• DPF (Database Partition Feature)
• Excellent communication skills

How to Apply

OnlineTo apply for this and other suitable exciting opportunities with Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd., you can register and apply online at http://www.zylogcanada.com/.
Email: If you would like to email a copy of your resume for review, please reference this posted Job Number or Job Description in the subject line of your email for prompt identification and send your email with attached resume to Resumes@zylog.ca.