Senior Database Administrator

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Yoyo Group Full time

Company Description

Yoyo powers some of the world’s leading retail brands, through customer loyalty and rewards software solutions, to offer the world's most rewarding buying experience.

We create a space where passionate, smart, curious and creative people thrive.

Our values are our way of being, and how we show up every day.

This is how we help our clients build their best business and our staff build a career to be proud of. Living these values builds an environment where world-class passionate people create world-class scalable products that delight customers and consumers and drive scalable profit and revenue growth.

**Job Description**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Build and optimise ‘big data’ pipelines, architectures and data sets.
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres, MYSQL & MongoDB.
- Configure and maintain database servers and processes.
- Monitor system's health and performance.
- Ensure high levels of performance, availability, sustainability and security.
- Analyse, solve and correct issues in real time.
- Refine and automate regular processes, track issues and document changes.
- Assist developers with query tuning and schema refinement.
- Provide 24/ 7 support for critical production systems.
- Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities.

**Qualifications**:

- 5+ years of database procedure code (pl/sql)

Experience and knowledge in:

- SQL Server DBA or similar role
- MY SQL Server Administration
- Performance Tuning and Optimisation (PTO)
- Backups, restores and recovery models
- High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server

Additional Information
**Our Values**:

- ** Be extremely customer centric**: In everything we do, serve and delight our customers, using data to continuously improve.
- ** Be a passionate team player**: Spiral up, be positive, bring momentum, and energy to those around you, leave ego at the door and be teachable.
- ** Be an owner**: Be accountable and take responsibility. Find solutions, learn from your mistakes and own tasks to completion.
- ** Be world-class at speed**: Delivering world leading solutions that delight our clients and customers.
- ** Be curious and creative**: Constantly innovating, exploring, learning, stretching ourselves, pushing the boundaries and thinking out of the box.



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