Database Administration Specialist @ NTT Data

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide leveraged, 24x7 Database Support of databases in accordance with NTT Total Quality Management, SLAs and IT best practices.
• Perform incident and problem queue management.
• Assist IT management with administrative policies and procedures related to technical problem resolution and priority management that relates to system support and maintenance.
• Recommend to IT management changes to physical database design to improve process throughput and ensure performance as identified above.
• Demonstrated time managements and multi-tasking ability.
• Strong ITIL foundation.
• Continual Service Improvement and Total Quality Management experiences.
• Excellent customer facing skills.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Ability to work directly with business stakeholders as well as technical resources.
• Demonstrated proficiency in the installation and administration of SQL Server.

Preferences: - Optional (Nice-to-Haves)

• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated leadership in administering DB2 Database Systems in a ?High Availability? environment.
• Strong DB2 performance tuning experience.
• Experience in database tuning and project support.
• Experience with DR planning, DB backup, restore and recovery.
• Experience in hardware sizing, and capacity planning.
• Database Specialist-DB2-Advance Database Administration - High-Availability (HADR), Replication (Q,SQL Replication) O/S Clustering (HACMP), IBM PureScale.
• Cross-skilled in other database technologies.