Database Administrator

3 days ago


Midrand, South Africa StaffCentral Consulting Full time

**Job Duties/Responsibilities will include**:
Respond to customer requests

Work with technical contacts from other teams or external partners on integration projects

Ability to provide on-call and 24x7 DBA support when applicable

Perform database administration, maintenance, performance tuning, security, and troubleshooting

Provide daily health check reports

Develop, maintain, perform, and test database backup and recovery strategies and procedures

Perform database installations, configurations, upgrades, and migrations

Provide proactive performance monitoring, and capacity planning for future database and server growth - Develop and maintain best practices database documentation.

Administer and maintain database and user security policies and standards including compliance with SOX regulations

Work closely and effectively and maintain good relationship with DBA team members, and in-house software development, project management, QA, and system admin teams

Support strategic decision making for technology base

Design, evaluate and recommend best practices for database models and architecture

Manage standards and strategies for security, database objects, and backup / recovery

Monitor capacity and performance, troubleshooting, and proactively resolving a wide variety of problems. Establish and maintain standards, procedures and automation strategies for tools and monitoring

Participate or lead development of smaller projects and ensure their timely delivery

Participate and contribute in the team’s development process

Act as a liaison between the Database Administration staff, project development staff and functional team

Matric, Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, in Computer Science / Information Technology, or equivalent

Oracle database certification & knowledge of Unix, storage subsystems advantageous

Excellent communicator, and high levels of proficiency in the English language - speaking, read and write.

Ability to create and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues and customers.

Experience in the capacity of a Senior Database Administrator.

Experience in Cloud Hyperscalers (Oracle OCI, AWS & Azure) advantageous

**Core Database Administration**: administration, maintenance, performance tuning, security, backup and recovery, high availability

Experience with Oracle Data Guard (DG), Oracle Real Application Cluster(RAC )

Unix and PL/SQL scripting knowledge advantageous

Experience in Oracle’s Engineered Systems, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Supercluster advantageous

Experience in Platform & Database Migrations

Oracle

Minimum 5 Years Database Administrator Experience on Oracle in a senior capacity

A solid understanding of Core Database Administration

Experience in designing and implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions:
Oracle RAC and Oracle Data Guard

Experience in database migrations, and administration on multiple platforms

A solid understanding of Windows, Unix/Linux, Solaris Operating Systems

Solid understanding of Oracle Rman backup and recovery.



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