Old Mutual was established in Cape Town in 1845 as South Africa's first mutual life assurance society. Our purpose is to help our customers thrive by enabling them to achieve their lifetime financial goals, while investing their funds in ways that will create a positive future for them, their families, their communities and broader society.
Old Mutual Insure is looking for a passionate, solution driven Senior Oracle Database Administrator. You will be responsible for performance tuning, troubleshooting, configuration, upgrading, administration, monitoring and maintenance of complex PL/SQL Oracle database environments.
Responsible for the performance tuning, troubleshooting, installation, configuration, upgrade, administration, monitoring and maintenance of complex database environments.
You would:
Performance tuning
Troubleshooting the database
Analyse and optimize database
Database scripting/automation
Resolve database performance and capacity issues
Improve the availability, reliability & stability of all areas and components of the database environment
Upgrade, maintain, develop and enhance the database environment
Perform database maintenance, recovery and back-up
Manage database utilities, monitor the relationship between the database users and applications, and maintain the organization’s databases across multiple platforms and computing environments
Perform platform maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hotfixes and security configurations
Continuously monitor platform performance and ensure system availability and reliability.
Design and implement systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and data archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of data assets
Monitor database system details within the database, including stored procedures and execution time, and implement efficiency improvements
Monitor, optimize, and allocate physical data storage for database systems
Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required
Develop a security scheme for the database environment of database performance and the identification of problem area
Non-negotiable:
Degree in IT or similar
7-10 years Oracle Database Administration experience
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