Resolution Insurance Company
Ltd is a general insurer offering innovative and responsive insurance
solutions.
We have learned to adapt in
this constantly changing society, and develop comprehensive products that are
relevant to our clients.
We currently have over 60,000
members in our fold and have partnered with over 500 medical service providers
across East Africa; a strong network of hospitals, clinics and doctors.
Database Administrator
Reporting to the Business Applications Manager, the Database Administrator’s overall purpose will be to to ensure optimal availability, performance, configuration and utilization of Resolution Insurance’s databases and applications in a manner that minimizes waste, is profitable and creates timely solutions, while improving efficiency, and applying best practice in the management of databases.
Key Responsibility Areas:
- Capacity
planning for creation, maintenance, backup and recovery of databases etc.
- Control
migrations of programs, database changes and reference data through the
development life cycle.
- Implement and
enforce security for all of the databases.
- Undertake
database maintenance plans to ensure maximum uptime.
- Develop
standards to ensure that all application designs and code are produced
with proper integrity, security and performance.
- Evaluate
releases of SQL server and Oracle and its tools, and third party products
to ensure that the site is running the products that are most appropriate.
- Provide
technical support to application development teams.
- Enforce and
maintain database constraints to ensure integrity of the database.
- Administer all
database objects and assist with impact analysis of any changes made to
the database objects.
- Troubleshoot
with problems regarding databases, applications and development tools.
- Monitoring and
testing disaster recovery database and backups.
- Implement DBA
best practices and incorporate them in DBA procedures.
- Monitoring
database efficiency
- Creating
complex query definitions that allow data to be extracted
- Create and
maintain database dictionaries and related database documentation
Qualifications and
Experience:
Essential
- Bachelor’s
Degree in IT/Computer Science
- At least 3
years working experience
- MS SQL DBA
Certification and Experience in MySQL
- Proficiency in
windows server (preferably 2008/2012)
Desirable
- Certification
in MySql and Oracle
- Knowledge in
Microsoft and SAP business intelligence
- Experience in
Data warehousing
- Project
management Skills
If you believe you are a team
player and would be a valuable resource to this ever growing brand, kindly
visit our careers page onwww.resolution.co.ke by Close of Business on Friday 6th
January 2017.
Only shortlisted candidates
will be contacted