Database Administrator

4 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Specd Full time

**QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE**:

- Tech, B.Com or B.Sc. Computer Science or Information Systems or B.Eng (Advantageous)
- Knowledge of Project Management (PMBOK, Prince II, Agile) principles would be advantageous
- Direct work experience as a database administrator (5 years)
- In-depth knowledge of the MS-SQL platform and Postgre
- Knowledge of Linux advantageous
- Good understanding of replication and availability groups (Always-on)
- Good understanding of SQL and report writing
- Self-managed and driven individual with a large focus on solution delivery
- Great Communication Skills
- Efficiency, delivering accurate results
- Ability to analyse and trouble shoot environments highlighting poor performance
- Ability to report on environment health, maintenance activities and performance of databases
- Strong Microsoft SQL Server knowledge including licensing
- Database maintenance including job management, space management, automated backups and automated restores
- Database availability including process management, index maintenance
- Database security including surface area management, database integrity and user access control
- Maintain backups and restore databases
- Maintain database access
- Database restore, deployment and structural changes
- Database monitoring using a variety of tools
- Implement data change requests
- Performance tuning
- Assist with database errors
- Good understanding of T-SQL
- Responsible for keeping the database software up to date (Patch Management)
- Responsible for maintaining SQL security access for staff and vendors. (Using the Principle of Least Privilege)

**TECHNOLOGIES**:

- Integration Services (SSIS)
- SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
- SQL Server Analysis Services Cubes (SSAS)
- SQL Availability Groups, Mirroring, replication, and log shipping
- Management of files and file groups, table archiving and partitioning
- SQL DR technologies, SQL backup and restore
- ETLs

**KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS**:

- Provides delivery and support to the IT Applications Manager to ensure stability, maintenance, and enhancement of the environment
- Communicates related system and environmental problems within the department and collaborates with other teams and vendors on changes, fixes, and updates
- Assists with the release process for changes to the environment which includes effective department wide and end user communication
- Manages testing scripts and identifies opportunities for improvement within the environment
- Provides regular one-on-one feedback to all members of the team and to the IT Applications Manager
- Evaluates the contents of service tickets on an ongoing basis and make recommendations on end user staff development
- Develops relevant metrics, measures and publishes the performance of the services provided and enables continuous improvement activities in collaboration with peer groups
- Works closely with all other IT personnel in identifying, evaluating, selecting, and implementing specific processes and technologies that support the businesss plans and IT strategy
- Ensure full adherence to policies and procedures that are compliant with industry and regulatory policies
- Prepares analysis and or proposals for other departments when necessary
- Serves as an internal consultant to other IT management staff and the broader business as needed
- Develops and maintains an effective daily checklist for the management of the environment
- Assists Application Manager with the planning and implementation of environmental projects
- Assists with the contents of project status reports and overall project summaries
- Co-ordinates environmental housekeeping and ensure environment is always in an audit-ready state
- Ensures daily jobs including backups are run successfully, timeously and takes proactive responsibility to co ordinate issues with the business and provides regular feedback on failed after hours processes.
- Reports anomalies timeously and pro-actively i.e disk space growth, DB locks, indexing and tuning requirements for databases and the like
- Plans, schedules and tracks incidents and change request timelines
- Monitors and reports on progress of his/her own project deliverables to appropriate stakeholders and keeps Application Manager informed
- Operate within agreed SLAs and maintains high levels of customer service at all times
- Projects a can-do attitude and is calm in high pressure situations

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