Database Administration Specialist

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa South African Bankers Services Company Pty Ltd Full time

Job Description:


BankservAfrica form part of the South African National Payments System and are a trusted partner of the financial industry, including banking institutions, and therefore require that employees adhere to unwavering standards of honesty and transparency in performing their duties.


PURPOSE

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 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 510 years' experience in IT Division or in a corporate IT Company
  • Minimum 5 years' experience in database management in a large organisation.
  • Minimum 510 years actively supporting/maintain an enterprise database infrastructure, broad work experience including administration, in Enterprise environment.


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