The Central Bank of Kenya hereby invites applications from suitably
qualified, experienced and self-motivated candidates with proven track record
to fill the following position.
1. Oracle Applications Administrator
Brief Description
He/She shall be charged with the responsibility of administering, managing and maintaining Oracle Applications installations in the Bank.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Installation
and configuration of all Oracle Applications environments
- Managing
patches, upgrades, customizations, updates and Version Control of Oracle
Applications
- Cloning
of Oracle Applications
- Oracle
Applications Concurrent Manager Administration; Forms/Report Servers
Administration and Web Servers Administration (Oracle HTTPS Server and
embedded Apache).
- Administration
of all the Applications DBA (AD) utilities including adadmin, adpatch,
adctrl etc
- Special
application related regular and maintenance functions. Such as month end
and period end functions.
- Oracle
Applications Printer Configuration
- User
Access Administration in Oracle Applications
- Providing
technical support to business and application development teams; being the
point of contact for Oracle Corporation.
Minimum Requirements
- Age
35 years and below
- College
degree in a relevant technical field (Computer Science majors preferred)
- Oracle
DBA Certification.
- At
least 2 years working experience in administering Oracle eBusiness Suite
11i/12.
- At
least 2 years UNIX experience.
- Experience
with Oracle application administration in high availability environments.
- Extensive
knowledge of Oracle10g/11g database and application servers.
- UNIX
System Administration qualification/experience specific to IBM AIX is an
added advantage
- Excellent
communication and organizational skills, and ability to effectively
interact with all levels of the organization
- Ability
to work in large multi disciplinary teams.
2. Oracle Database Administrator
Brief Description
The candidate must demonstrate ability to administer and maintain large database installations in a busy environment where security is of top priority.
Key Responsibilities and Work Experience
Brief Description
The candidate must demonstrate ability to administer and maintain large database installations in a busy environment where security is of top priority.
Key Responsibilities and Work Experience
- Enterprise
database server administration for 24/7 data availability of key systems.
- Assist
in the selection, installation, qualification, testing, and validation of
enterprise database systems and applications. Work closely with internal
and external developers to develop and maintain custom and third-party
database applications.
- Responsible
for documenting all database installations and configurations.
- Design
and develop databases, database users and database security and other
database objects including stored procedures. Maintain version control of
custom database objects and assist with the creation of entity
relationship and modeling diagrams for new custom databases.
- Create
and maintain jobs/scripts with automated scheduling and alerts,
configuration and monitoring for all current and future databases.
Responsible for monitoring the status of scheduled backups and database
jobs.
- Responsible
for database security and the analysis and application of database patches
and upgrades to database servers and components.
- Optimization
and performance tuning for all current and future databases and assisting
the application team with application performance tuning.
- Work
with the Information Security Office to ensure compliance. Participate in
audits by maintaining the necessary logs and providing reports or extracts
to the qualified resources as requested for the audits.
- Perform
imports, exports and data conversion from one system to another as needed.
- Migrate
between database platforms as necessary.
- Develop,
implement and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for database
administration including backup, restoration, administration, and disaster
recovery.
- Participate
in designing, setting up, implementing and testing business continuity and
disaster recovery installations within the Bank.
- Performing
capacity planning required creating and maintaining the databases while
working closely with system administrators.
- Evaluating
releases of Oracle and its tools, and third party products to ensure that
the company is running the products that are most appropriate while
working with the application developers and System administrators, to
ensure that any new product usage or release upgrade takes place with
minimal impact.
- Enforcing
and maintaining database constraints to ensure integrity of the database.
- Administering
all database objects, including tables, clusters, indexes, views,
sequences, packages and procedures.
- Assisting
with impact analysis of any changes made to the database objects.
- Troubleshooting
problems regarding the databases, applications and development tools.
- Creating
new database users as required.
- Manage
sharing of resources amongst applications.
Minimum Requirements
- Age
35 years and below
- College
degree in a relevant technical field (Computer Science majors preferred)
- Oracle
DBA Certification.
- At
least 2 years UNIX experience
- At
least 2 years of Oracle database administration in a UNIX environment.
- Experience
with database administration in high availability environments.
- UNIX
System Administration qualification/experience specific to IBM AIX is an
added advantage
- Excellent
communication and organizational skills, and ability to effectively
interact with all levels of the organization
- Ability
to work in large multi-disciplinary teams.
If you consider yourself proactive, self-driven and up to the
challenge, please visit the following link www.centralbank.go.ke/careers/ and
submit your application online so as to be received on or before April 13,
2012.
Note:
Note:
- Applications
received after deadline will not be considered
- Only
short listed candidates will be contacted
- Canvassing,
either directly or indirectly, will result in automatic disqualification
of the affected Applicant.
Central Bank of Kenya is equal opportunity employer