Database Administrator
We are looking for a
seasoned database administrator with a knack for end-to-end proactive database
design and management, a gritty never-say-die doer who relishes challenges, is
dynamic, resilient, creative, and highly motivated.
If you are looking
for an employer who promotes individual excellence and mutual respect in a
team-driven culture with a key focus on social empowerment, then the Database
Administrator position within The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, “The Kingdom
Bank” is the perfect opportunity for you to scale new horizons.
The role holder will
ensure performance monitoring and management of database, data warehouse
components, Supporting Infrastructure, and general ICT systems through setting
up of optimal performance benchmarks and the use of modern best practices and
appropriate tools to meet business performance, growth demands, ensure system
security, business continuity and competitiveness in product and service
development.
Responsibilities
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
- Monitor performance and manage parameters to provide
fast query responses to front-end users ensuring the performance of
production databases.
- Monitor including systems logs, events, and event
correlation and maintain performance statistics, and set baseline
statistics.
- Monitor and manage the high availability components
including RAC, Data guard, RMAN, ASM, and the underlying infrastructure
for mission-critical databases.
- Develop, manage and test backup and recovery plans
and ensure that storage, archiving, backup, and recovery procedures are
functioning properly.
- Take a lead role in the various I.T. audits in
providing necessary information and enforcing the closure of audit, change
management, and compliance issues.
- Manage key I.T. risks for all database systems and
ensure proper mitigation.
- Take the lead role in BCP and disaster recovery
preparedness through periodic testing as scheduled and updating of
disaster recovery procedures and sharing the results with management.
- Team up with applications support, development, and
infrastructure team in the development, implementation, and management of
applications, infrastructure, and monitoring system health in order to
proactively identify weaknesses and address them.
- Perform database tasks such as schema design,
capacity planning, maintenance, troubleshooting, and change control
activities.
- Consider both back-end organization of data and
front-end accessibility for end-users and further refine the physical
design to meet system storage requirements.
- Install database management systems (RDBMS) using
best practice; ensure compliance with RDBMS license agreements and
maintain upgrades and critical patches
- Database setup, configuration, and administration of
MYSQL, MSSQL
- Installation and Administration of SAP HANA databases
- Create and maintain database documentation,
including data standards, procedures, and definitions for the data
dictionary (metadata) and maintain all technical documentation relating to
database management.
- Communicate regularly with technical, applications,
and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security.
- Perform under limited supervision, maintain
reliability of data and databases, and assist in developing and
implementing standards for database maintenance and configuration.
Qualifications
The successful candidate will be required to have the following
skills and competencies:
- Bachelor’s
degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology,
or related discipline, or equivalent.
- 3 – 5 years in
database technology with experience deploying database and data
warehousing technologies (e.g. high availability, real application
clusters, ESBU backups, partitioning, Oracle data guard) in production
environments.
- Oracle RDBMS
11g/12c OCP certification as well as strong SQL and PLSQL skills including
data warehouse objects such as partitioning and materialized views.
- Skills in
Oracle RDBMS 19c
- Skills in
Oracle Engineered Systems e.g. Oracle SuperCluster, Exalytics, Exadata
Storage, ZFS storage, and SmartScan.
- Skills in data
integration, data warehousing, business intelligence, OLAP, and data
mining as well as familiarity with ICT standards such as ITIL, and COBIT.
- Proficiency in
various operating systems like AIX, Solaris, Linux & windows.
- Thorough
knowledge of data profiling, data modeling, and data validation and
associated tools; Skills in database sizing, storage, performance, and
security considerations.
- Strong
analytical skills; ability to analyze and correlate complex data and
excellent knowledge of the Oracle technology stack as well as excellent
knowledge of ICT system architectures, platforms, and infrastructure.
- Ability to
effectively communicate complex technical issues and exhibit a wide degree
of creativity and latitude coupled with the ability to lead and direct the
work of others without the benefit of a direct reporting relationship as
well as the ability to utilize independent judgment and to support senior
managers on operational criticality
- General
awareness of the banking industry ICT operations and security procedures.
How to apply
If you fit the profile, then apply today! Please forward your
application enclosing detailed Curriculum Vitae to jobs@co-opbank.co.ke indicating the
job reference number DBA2/ICTI/2022 by 7th December
2022.
We are an equal-opportunity employer.