IBM DB2 Senior Consultant : SAP LABS

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Within the Customer Services and Delivery (CS&D) board area, the mission of the Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) organization is to run and operate SAP s private cloud offering. Isolated private cloud landscapes are built for customers both in SAP owned datacenter as well as on IaaS infrastructure provided by Hyper-Scalers like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services (AWS). Services are delivered from all regions (EME/AME/APJ) having a strong international focus and cultural diversity.

As part of ECS Delivery Technical Operations the Database Services Team is responsible for enabling Database Technologies and operating them at maximum efficiency. Beside project delivery and day to day administration we are part of strategic pilot projects for new technologies as reference for other customers. Teams provides stable operational support for customer Database landscapes for their critical business systems.

For our Delivery Centers, we are looking for an IT Technology Services Sr Consultant with a strong technical background for supporting critical projects & administration in the Enterprise Cloud Services Delivery environment. Beside administration we are part of pilot projects for new technologies as reference for SAP customers.

THE ROLE:

You will be responsible to drive continuous improvement to increase operation, availability and efficiency. Infrastructure landscape re-architecture and new technology adoption is another important part. Global thinking and a strong customer focus are essential within the new Enterprise Cloud Services program.
Your role will be of a Technology Senior Consultant as part of the Center of Excellence Teams comprising of Database Experts administering Databases, driving critical topics related to Incident Management, Problem Management, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Backup & Restore among other operational tasks.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:

Strong conceptual understanding & knowledge on the RDBMS products in the market
Around 12+ years of work experience as Database Administrator primarily on IBM DB2 or DB6
Exposure to the automation tools /scripting or processes
DB2 UDB Installation & Applying fixpak
Excellent knowledge in DB Performance Tuning
Strong knowledge in implementation and supporting DB2 HADR with pacemaker.
Ability to proactively identify, troubleshoot and resolve live database systems issues.
Hands-on knowledge in proactive remediation of database operational problems
Database Sizing and Capacity Planning
Database Creation and DBM & DB CFG setting.
Good understanding of Locking Concept
Security & Authentication
Well verse with physical & Logical Database partitioning features.
Strong Knowledge in Database backup & restoration
Strong knowledge of db2pd, snapshot monitors & event monitor tool for troubleshooting.
Should have in depth knowledge to find the slow response of servers, database etc.
Strong communication skills and good follow-ups.
Strong knowledge for data movement tools.
Good knowledge on shell scripting
Willingness to take on-call duty/Weekend tasks during working hours. The on-call / on-shift duty is based on rotation.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Monitoring and managing the database landscape in a large-scale Productive environments.
Must have good knowledge of Policy, workflow, group, and clients for Configuring the backup.
Ensuring Data Integrity aspects and determining the most suitable recovery technique.
Ability to handle effectively and accurately the data recovery scenarios.
Clear understanding of Point-In-Time (PIT) and full recovery techniques.
Handle incidents around critical systems and ability to failover & failback as needed.

Cloud knowledge (e. g. experience of working in Public Cloud Domains like Microsoft Azure, AWS and GCP) is desirable but not essential. Good to have Professional Certification of Database Platforms with exposure to Project Management tasks including PMP and ITIL certification.