(868) Senior Database Support Administrator (Teradata and Oracle) - BSTD at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Be responsible for the installation, configuration, maintenance and upgrading of the Teradata and Oracle database environments.
• Participate in the establishment and maintenance of database standards and procedures, in accordance with the information technology (IT) governance within the SARB’s Business Solutions and Technology Department (BSTD).
• Work independently to deliver outputs that meet the turnaround time and quality standards expected by business. (This includes the design of databases, the management of physical database structures and the resolution of database-related incidents).
• Display an ability to provide solutions and approaches to database-related problems (barring those of high complexity and risk).
• Provide management information for reporting on the quality, turnaround times and impact of database deliverables.
• Stay current with Teradata and Oracle developments and conduct research into new database technologies that would benefit or enhance the database administration function within the SARB.
• Perform database backups and restoration (as per schedule) so that all data are recoverable, even in emergency situations (disaster recovery).
• Adhere to the SARB’s IT and information security standards, processes and procedures (i.e. change management and logical access).
• Perform database capacity planning and comply with the software licence agreements.
• Attend to incidents and requests for service calls, ensuring that resolution is timeous and in line with service standards.
• Perform monthly database maintenance activities over maintenance weekends, deploying patches and applying fixes.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor’s degree in IT or Computer Science, or an equivalent qualification (NQF 7); and
• at least 8-10 years’ experience, including being progressively more responsible for database administration and related technologies. The preferred technologies are Teradata and Oracle.

Technical requirements include having experience in:

• the implementation, tuning and maintenance of Teradata and Oracle database solutions;
• the implementation of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) for database solutions; and
• Redhat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), OpenText xECM, SharePoint, SAS and PowerBI would be advantageous.