Responsibilities

• Database administration and support lifecycle including backup/recovery, automation, maintenance


• Supporting the development, system test, user acceptance, and training and production database environments.


• 99% availability maintained for all databases.


• 95% of tickets raised are responded to within the 1^st hour of incident reporting.


• 90% of tickets closure maintained


• Identifying and implementing Best Practices for Database Administration.


• Design BCP and HA solutions for critical systems in order to achieve zero downtime during maintenance and failures.


• Assisting Infrastructure, EBU teams and other Technology teams with hardware and support requirements for database administration.


• Conformance to security standards for databases and data integrity


• Develop retention policies and architecture for all systems, whilst maintaining BCP.


• Regular reviews on ILM policies conducted.


• Dimensioning of systems to be done periodically based on demand experienced and projected.


• Optimal performance of all systems maintained conforming to the SLA agreements between business and Quality Assurance

 Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or Technical related Field with at least 4 years hands on Experience in managing large databases Experience in Oracle RAC, Data guard and RMAN will be added advantage.


• Certification –OCP DBA; Oracle Apps Systems Administration; SQL Server Administration


• Proactive & self-motivated;


• Good public relations, communication & interpersonal.

Note to Applicants

As part of the interview process, external candidates should prepare the following documentation which will be required as soft copies at a later stage based on your performance in the interviews/assessments.

a)    An updated CV with contacts of three referees, 2 who must be professional and must have supervised you at some point, the other referee can be a colleague in the same professional field.

b)    Kenyan Certificate of Good Conduct (Less than 1 year old) or a receipt of the same from the CID pending release of the hardcopy document.

c)     Clearance certificate from a reputable Credit Reference Bureau (CRB).

d)    University Diploma/Degree Certificate/ Letter of completion from University in case you have not received your diploma/degree certificate.

e)     National ID/Passport.

 How To Apply             

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Persons with Disabilities (PwD) and Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.