Database Administration Specialist

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, 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 5-10 years’ experience in IT Division or in a corporate IT Company
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in database management in a large organisation.
- Minimum 5-10 years actively supporting/maintain an enterprise database infrastructure, broad work experience including administration, in Enterprise environment.

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