Principal Database & Application Server Administrator: Business Modernisation at Statistics South Africa

key Performance Areas

• Develop relevant policies, procedures, guidelines, standards and project plans
• Conduct research into new techniques, technology and solutions
• Install and ensure administration and optimisation of database servers, application servers and related components
• Ensure the designing, development, implementation and monitoring, maintenance and performance tune databases
• Establish and maintain appropriate end-user database access control levels
• Interact with stakeholders
• Define and perform database backups, recovery and archiving according to plans
• Supervise staff.

Prerequisites

• An Honour’s degree (NQF 8) in Information Systems/ Computer Science/IT, DBA Certification
• Training in relational database management and optimisation, Application Server Management and optimisation, Project Management, Software/ product specific training
• At least 5 years’ working experience in a database administration or senior technical position
• Working technical experience with designing, building, installing, configuring and supporting database and application servers
• Hands-on database tuning and troubleshooting experience
• Experience with data processing flowcharting techniques
• Project management experience
• Experience with server performance tuning and monitoring tools
• Extensive application support experience
• Strong understanding of database structures, theories, principles and practices
• Strong working knowledge or relational databases
• Working technical knowledge of database scripts
• General knowledge of storage technologies and server security
• Business process and reengineering knowledge
• Understanding of the relationship between processes and policies
• Proven knowledge of systems development life cycle methodologies
• Extensive knowledge of database security
• Knowledge of technology architecture, web infrastructure, IT security, applications and systems software, database design and management, technology trends and development and knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws