Database Administrator

**Job Details**:

- Department Information Technology- Minimum experience Associate- Company primary industry Insurance- Job functional area Information Technology- Salary R560 000 - R645 000 per annum**Introduction**
A well known financial services company offering short term insurance solutions based in Sandton is looking to enlarge their team with a Database Administrator**Purpose of the Role**
- The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through own efforts.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**_Database Maintenance_**
- Manage SQL and MySQL Server databases.
- Configure and maintain database servers and processes.
- Monitor system's health and it’s performance.
- Ensure high levels of performance, availability, sustainability, and security.
- Automate and review regular processes.
- Ensure that databases logs are tracked, and issues are resolved on time.
- Work closely with IT project Managers, Architects, Suppliers, and Development teams.
- Provide support to Developers and the Infrastructure team.
- Participates in the configuration, tuning, and troubleshooting of the databases in use in Development, QA and Production.
- Database Performance monitoring, resolution implementation and maintain storage, archiving, backup, and ensure that recovery procedures function correctly.
- Adhere and implement company’s governance and security standards.
- Produce reports on various database e.g., capacity, availability, jobs run etc.
- Implementation of IT projects.
- Provide support for business-critical systems, perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities.

**_ Documentation Development & Maintenance_**
- Perform backup recovery through testing and ensure database are backed up accordingly.
- Maintain data standards including adherence to the Data Protection Act.

**_ Data Acquisition Programme (DAP)_**
- Support business with Data acquisition programme by ensuring that data is collected and availed for reporting purposes.
- Automation of Data acquisition to enable business for data management.

**_ Business Intelligence_**
- Provide necessary support for business Intelligence function through access Management.
- Provide database support for Business Intelligence Dashboard.

**_ Research and continuous improvement_**
- Recommend best security practices to achieve business objectives, advise on risk assumptions for any variances granted, and provides alternatives to achieve desired end results.
- Research, identify and recommend database improvements

**Minimum experience & qualifications required**
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or relevant IT Degree.
- Microsoft certified Database Administrator (Added Advantage).
- Relevant database certificates.
- Minimum of 5 years proven MS SQL Database Administration.
- MySQL experience (added advantage).
- Knowledge and experience with database Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO).
- Knowledge and experience with backups, restores and recovery models (Preferable).
- Knowledge and experience of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server
- ** Attributes and Values**:

- Communicating clearly
- Emotional resilience
- Team player
- Conveying self confidence
- Customer Centricity
- Managing work
- Upholding standards
- Remaining productive
- Living company values
- Apply

A well known financial services company offering short term insurance solutions based in Sandton is looking to enlarge their team with a Database Administrator

**Purpose of the Role**
- The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through own efforts.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**_Database Maintenance_**
- Manage SQL and MySQL Server databases.
- Configure and maintain database servers and processes.
- Monitor system's health and it’s performance.
- Ensure high levels of performance, availability, sustainability, and security.
- Automate and review regular processes.
- Ensure that databases logs are tracked, and issues are resolved on time.
- Work closely with IT project Managers, Architects, Suppliers, and Development teams.
- Provide support to Developers and the Infrastructure team.
- Participates in the configuration, tuning, and troubleshooting of the databases in use in Development, QA and Production.
- Database Performance monitoring, resolution implementation and maintain storage, archiving, backup, and ensure that recovery procedures function correctly.
- Adhere and implement company’s governance and security standards.
- Produce reports on various database e.g., capacity, availability, jobs run etc.
- Implementation of IT projects.
- Provide support for business-critical systems, perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities.

**_ Documentation Development & Maintenance_**
- Perform backup recovery through testing and ensure database are backed up accordingly.
- Maintain data standards including adherence to the Data Protection Act.

**_ Data Acquisit