SQL Database Administrator

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Set Consulting Full time

SQL Database Administrator 

R360k per annum 

Cape Town

A Medium-Sized International Financial Services firm specialising in wealth management solutions is looking for a SQL Database Administrator to report to the IT Operations Manager in their Cape Town Operations department.  

Key Performance Areas 

  • Maintaining high levels of performance, availability, sustainability and security
  • Maintaining data quality as well as server and database security as per the user privileges set by the business units
  • Analysing, solving and correcting any database issues in real time
  • Performing scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities
  • Creating database backup and recovery plans and procedures
  • Handling data extraction, transformation and loading
  • Writing optimised SQL queries for integration with other applications
  • Modifying existing code, adapting it to new hardware or upgrading interfaces and improving performance
  • Assisting developers with query tuning and schema refinement
  • Designing database tables with efficient structures
  • Consulting with staff to evaluate interface, develop specifications and performance requirements and resolve any bugs
  • Understanding issues related to network performance and security
  • Refining and automating regular processes
  • Performing scheduled troubleshooting
  • Providing ad hoc support to the business units or end users

Qualifications and Experience

  • 4 - 5 years in the day-to-day database administration activities for operational databases and database administration of Microsoft SQL Server 2014 onwards
  • Hands-on experience supporting .NET (C#, VB, ASP) and VBA applications
  • High level of competency with data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) disciplines and tools (SSIS) and SQL Server reporting services (SSRS)
  • Experience creating and deploying SSIS Packages using SSDT
  • Experience defining database server security, user creation, roles and permissions
  • Have experience in maintaining and creating stored procedures, functions and triggers to facilitate applications with data-driven dependencies
  • Microsoft Certification (Advantageous) 


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