Senior Database Administrator (JHB) at BET Software

A role exists for a Senior Database Administrator at South Africa’s leading betting brand. We are looking for a well-motivated, energetic, inquisitive, highly proficient individual, who has a solid technical base. A technical expert to lead a team of Database Administrators whose primary focus is maintaining and enhancing BET Software’s MS SQL based database offering.

Our successful All-Star will administer, and secure organisational databases - ensuring the overall health of the system. We’re looking for someone with advanced SQL skills, as well as the ability to mentor and guide Junior Database Administrators. Your decision-making, problem-solving, and proactive attitude must be enhanced by effective collaboration with our internal and external Teams.

You Bring:

• 5-7 years experience in a commercial environment utilizing a high transaction database.
• 5+ years experience in MSSQL-all aspects.
• Advanced SQL skills and query writing skills.
• Advanced troubleshooting SQL skills.
• Experience in designing/optimizing MSSQL Databases.
• Proven experience in mentoring other DBAs.

What You’ll Do:

• Ensure Database design is robust, scalable and operating optimally.
• Work with other DBAs to make sure that the solutions meet application requirements and performance goals.
• Actively contribute to planning meetings, documentation and testing.
• Determine, drive and document database policies, procedures and standards within the team.
• Set and maintain database standards.
• Ensure high DB availability as this has a public-facing web front end.
• Minimize database downtime and manage parameters to provide fast query responses.
• Perform tests and evaluations regularly to ensure data security, privacy and integrity.
• Develop processes for optimizing database security.
• Install and maintain the performance of database servers.
• Performance tuning of database systems.
• Install, upgrade, and manage database applications.
• Create automation for repeated database tasks.
• Be available for on-call support as needed.
• Monitor database performance, implement changes and apply new patches and versions when required
• Utilize tools and scrips to monitor all aspects of database performance including the underlying compute, storage and networking.
• Drive the adoption of processes within the team that consider and meet the expectations of technical throughput rates and responses; processing times; effective resource utilization during operation and where the system or solution ensures maximum operational capacity requirements are met.
• Good understanding of big data manipulation methodology.
• Use high-speed transaction recovery techniques and backup data.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot database errors.
• Create and manage database reports, visualizations, and dashboards.
• Recommend and implement emerging database technologies.
• Implement improved processes that have a positive effect on the team’s performance and company bottom line.
• Take an active involvement in problem resolution and where necessary works after hours to ensure that problems are resolved.
• Shows foresight to prevent errors or delays in projects.
• Demonstrate initiative by understanding, acquiring and implementing new knowledge and skills both within a team and to the wider group.
• Incorporates the new abilities into the day to day operational activities to improve the performance of products and systems.
• Ensure techniques, technologies, tools and processes used are in line with industry best practices.
• Identify team members requiring specific knowledge, skill or understanding and seek ways to impart or upskill the team members through coaching and mentorship.
• Verify the knowledge has been imparted successfully and if not, take steps to rectify gaps in the transfer of the knowledge.
• Provide technical guidance to the team through collaboration sessions and knowledge sharing initiatives.