Junior Dba

**We Want You**:
**You Bring**:

- Relevant Degree/Diploma.
- 1-2 years’ experience in a commercial environment utilising a high transaction database or successful completion of a graduate program or work experience.
- Basic SQL skills and query writing skills.
- Basic troubleshooting SQL skills.
- Experience in designing/optimising MSSQL Databases.
- Microsoft Certificate: Azure Database Administrator Associate (advantageous).
- Knowledge on Postgres will be advantageous.

**What You’ll Do**:
Database Design:

- Ensure Database design is robust, scalable and operating optimally.
- Actively contribute to planning meetings, documentations and testing.
- Maintain database documentation as required.

Database Performance:

- Assists with ensuring high DB availability as this has a public facing web front end.
- Install and maintain the performance of database servers.
- Be available for on-call support as needed.

Monitoring:

- Monitor database performance.
- Utilise tools and scripts to monitor all aspects of database performance including the underlaying compute, storage and networking.
- Use high-speed transaction recovery techniques and backup data.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot database errors.
- Assists with the creation and manage database reports, visualisations, and dashboards.
- Monitor daily backups, archiving and indexing processes.

Initiative and Innovation:

- 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 team and to the wider group.
- Incorporates the new abilities into the day-to-day operational activities to improve performance of products and systems.
- Ensure techniques, technologies, tools and processes used are in line with industry best practices.

Knowledge Share:

- Identify areas that requires a specific knowledge, skill or understanding and seek guidance from Mentors.

**Living the Spirit**:

- Willingness to collaborate with cross functional teams such as developers, IT support and fellow DBA professionals to ensure the database is successful and aligned to the company’s goals and objectives.
- Actively participate with the team to find creative solutions, share knowledge with the team, and contribute to a solution driven and high performing DBA team.
- Ensuring that the data in the database is and remains accurate and secure.
- Embrace new methodologies and technologies to enhance data performance and security.
- Openness to feedback from peers and superiors and absorbing feedback as an opportunity for growth and improvement as a junior.
- Promoting client centricity by understanding the needs and the experience of the internal and external stakeholders and aligning the database services with their expectations accordingly.
- Seek out new methods and tools to introduce to enhance the effectiveness of the DBA operations, such as data modules and database platforms.

**The Company We Keep**:
At BET Software, we don't just recruit talent, we cultivate it. Our learning and development programmes, our various opportunities for growth, and our well-deserved incentives are what keep our All-Star Team the best amongst the rest.