Senior Database Reliability Engineer DB2/UDB

Description and Requirements
The Team You Will Join
At MetLife, our Database Infrastructure team within Global Infrastructure is dedicated to making a difference. We prioritize our customers' perspectives and continuously strive to enhance and simplify their experience. Whether you're focused on safeguarding our customers' and employees' data, developing top-tier database solutions, or utilizing data and analytics to transform customer insights into customer-centric solutions, your work has a significant impact. Each of us plays a crucial role in bringing MetLife's mission of building a more confident future to life. Interested in joining our team? We'd love to have you!
The Opportunity
The Senior Database Reliability Engineer position is responsible for engineering and operating evolving IBM DB2/UDB platforms. This role involves managing and optimizing existing DB2/UDB database platforms globally, as well as evaluating and onboarding new database platforms and tools across the organization. This is an exciting opportunity to continuously improve stability and increase self-service through automation, self-healing, and AIOps, providing a best-in-class experience for our application development partners. An ideal candidate should have experience with various database platforms, data engineering, automation, DevOps, and infrastructure/configuration as code, and be able to contribute in multiple ways.
Success in this role requires a forward-thinking individual who excels at managing data platforms using innovative methods, adapts quickly to new tools and technologies, and delivers what truly matters to customers.
How You'll Help Us Build a Confident Future (Key Responsibilities)

• Lead and participate in efforts to leverage Automation, AIOps, and Observability for optimized data infrastructure performance, security, and stability, including research, planning, design, engineering, and operation of highly available, reliable, and scalable solutions.
• Design and implement infrastructure-as-code solutions to build, configure, and manage database infrastructure.
• Develop and implement automation for self-healing mechanisms to minimize system downtime as well as self-service solutions for streamlined operations.
• Lead and participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and recommend tuning and optimization procedures to improve database performance.
• Review and implement database configurations in alignment with MetLife data security standards.
• Demonstrate strong ownership and accountability.
• Participates in the on-call rotation to support a 24*7 environment.

What You Need to Succeed (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or another related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience with IBM DB2/LUW (UDB) database administration on Unix and AIX, including DB2 utilities.
• Strong database analytical skills to improve complex system performance and perform Root Cause Analyses.

What Can Give You an Edge (Preferred)

• Good oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts.
• Strong coding skills with UNIX shell scripting, DB2 SQL PL and experience in Automation with Self-Healing & AIOps
• Understanding of Agile principles and proficiency in Azure DevOps.
• Working knowledge of another DB technology such as Oracle, IBM Informix or PostgreSQL
• Experience with Azure DevOps, automation with Ansible or other similar infrastructure coding tools
• Experience working closely with Observability tools like Elastic, Grafan, Datadog, etc.
• Familiarity with products such as Rubrik, AppDynamics, IBM TWS Scheduler, IBM Guardium, ServiceNow.
• Experience with API and API-driven development.
• Knowledge of Machine Learning (ML) and ML models, with experience in configuring ML jobs
• Affinity to learn other technologies based on demand and help team members by coaching and assisting.

The expected salary range for this position is $100,000 - $125,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, as well as the 2025 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For ®, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law ("protected characteristics").
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MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
$100,000 - $125,000
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