Database Administrator

5 days ago

Cape Town, South Africa Dimension Data Full time

**Requirements
- Managing installations and upgrades
- Assisting Development Teams in designing and optimising systems
- carrying out database administration tasks
- Working with SECURITY team to manage access and compliance
- Checking OS and Database logs
- Do backups and restores as requested
- Do regular disaster recovery trials
- Profile server resource usage, optimise and tweak as necessary
- Regularly review AD groups to make sure membership is still valid
- Provide output to internal and external auditors as requested
- Implement encryption and data masking options where required
- Grant permission to servers and databases in conjunction with standards as per security team
- Review DBMS software licenses for compliance as well as opportunities to reduce costs.Resolve incidents
- To research, assess and implement new features of MONGODB
- Troubleshoot and support on DBA issues
- Perform change management tasks to push data changes to various systems in the enterprise

Identifies new opportunities for optimization, budgeting, and hiring

**Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required
- 4 years of experience managing MONGODB environment
- 4 years of experience with MONGODB ENTERPRISE edition with OPSMANAGER
- Working on Linux servers (not necessary as an ADMIN)
- Strong proficiency in performance tuning
- Strong proficiency in backup/restore techniques
- Strong proficiency in Linux operating system and scripts developments
- Experience working with AWS infrastructures services (EC2, S3)

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