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  • Posted: Feb 29, 2024
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Tracker South Africa was established in 1996 and currently connects over 1 million vehicles, making it the region’s dominant brand. To most people, Tracker is seen as a Stolen Vehicle Recovery (SVR) company, and while SVR is still at the core of our business, we have evolved significantly over the last 20 years. Through a culture of continuous innovation...
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    SQL Database Administrator - Randburg

    Job description
    KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:
    Databases

    •  Responsible for providing operational application database services to the organization.
    •  Responsible for designing and optimizing methods to store, analyze, utilize, and organize data associated with the applications portfolio.
    •  Owns, tracks and resolves database related incidents and requests.
    •  Exemplify the desired culture and philosophies of the organization.
    •  Fulfills requests and resolves incidents within SLAs.
    •  Reviews service-related reports (database backups, maintenance, monitoring) on a daily basis to ensure service-related issues are identified and resolved within established SLAs.
    •  Responding to investigate database related alerts and escalations and working with others within the organization to come up with strategic solutions to recurring problems.

    Backups and Restores

    •  Regularly review and / or update backup and restore procedure and policy.
    •  Maintain a record of system backup frequencies and backup times.
    •  Perform regular tests of the ability to restore backed up data.
    •  Collaborate with Team Leader: Hardware to ensure that backups conform to best practice retention cycles.

    Disaster Recovery

    •  Ensure All critical Business systems are replicated at DR.
    •  Ensure All recovery systems are replicated at DR, including Infrastructure, DB replication and Software.
    •  Manage Infrastructure DR Plan.
    •  Manage DR Datacenter availability and stability.
    •  Manage DR connectivity.
    •  Manage DR capacity.
    •  Support application teams as a database administrator running RDBMS technologies multi-node instance(s)
    •  ITIL Change Management, Problem Management, Incident Management etc. procedures using tools (Service Now, BMC Remedy).
    •  Pro-actively evaluate evolving technologies and recommend solutions to business problems.
    •  Setting up, monitoring and troubleshooting popular Relational Databases.
    •  Troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication issues, log shipping issues, connectivity issues, security issues etc.
    •  Master Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, leveraging appropriate monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
    •  Expertise with physical and logical schema design and troubleshoot common issues.
    •  Detect and troubleshoot potential database related issues and constraints (CPU, memory, I/O, disk space, etc.).
    •  Data loading into RDBMS from other non-RDBMS systems.
    •  Strong knowledge of backups, restores, recovery models, database shrink operations, Database commands, Clustering, Database mirroring, Replication.
    •  Index management, integrity checks, configuration, patching. How statistics work, how indexes are stored, how they can be created and managed effectively.
    •  RDBMS patching, upgrading, applying CPUs, resolving patching conflicts etc.
    •  Documentation skills for processes and procedures (creating Knowledge Transfer documents, run-books, topology etc.)
    •  Exemplify the desired culture and philosophies of the organization.
    •  Ability to be on call production support on a rotation basis.
    •  Leads / Participates in planning for system development and expansion.
    •  Leads / Participates in systems software and/or hardware projects.
    •  Manages projects of limited scope or portions of large and/or complex projects.
    •  Guides technical staff on a project basis.
    •  Responsible for staff training of new applications and features.
    •  Responsible for maintaining availability, security, and data integrity of applications.

    Minimum requirements

    •  A Bachelor's degree or Equivalent IT Qualification or Diploma
    •  A minimum of 3 years in similar position
    •  Mandatory: Microsoft Training and Certifications in Data Management
    •  ITIL
    •  CobIT

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