Database Administration Specialist - (530) at BankservAfrica

You will engage with the following stakeholders:

• Internal and External Stakeholders.
• Project managers, Change Management, risk, and compliance.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Ensure team goals are aligned to BU strategy, documented, clearly understood, and regularly reviewed.
• Ensure team manages and delivers on  internal and external stakeholder requirements/SLA’s.
• Identify and scope opportunities for improvement / innovation. 
• Deploy client or company specific projects in line with company standards and in agreement with line manager.
• Ensure day to day operations of the database environment are healthy and available to all services as required and all health checks completed.
• Ensure effective Database resources, servers, systems,  applications, hardware, software, and monitoring.
• Ensure database are performing optimally and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Coordinates access control levels to the databases environment
• Database security patches and upgrades
• Ensure backups and recovery concepts are adhered in terms of disaster recovery.
• Weekly and Monthly ICT reports
• Develop maintenance/operational schedules and procedures for all database environments.
• Ensure maintenance schedules are executed according to approved operational procedures.
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant policies & procedures, regulation, and legislation
• Risk: Ensure risks are reported on and mitigated

QUALIFICATIONS / KNOWLEDGE

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in IT/Computer Science is recommended.
• Oracle Certification (OCP) preferable or extensive knowledge of Oracle Database architecture and concepts
• Extensive knowledge and experience with Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX/LINUX scripting
• Knowledge of Database security techniques
• Good knowledge of performance tuning of Oracle databases
• Knowledge/Certification of AWS /Azure / Oracle cloud would be advantageous.

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 5-10 years’ experience in IT Division or in a corporate IT Company
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in database management in a large organisation.
• Minimum 5-10 years actively supporting/maintain an enterprise database infrastructure, broad work experience including administration, in Enterprise environment.