Database Admin
We are looking for a
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 be
responsible for end-to-end and proactive database design and administration,
performance monitoring and management of all databases, surrounding
infrastructure, and general ICT Systems through the setting up of optimal
performance benchmarks, use of modern and appropriate tools coupled with best
practices. The role holder will also ensure high systems availability and
improvements to meet business growth demands, ensure timely intervention by key
stakeholders, improved performance, enhance system security, business
continuity, and competitiveness in product and service development.
Responsibilities
Specifically, the successful jobholder will be required to:
- Monitoring performance and managing parameters to
provide fast query responses to front-end users ensuring the performance
of production databases.
- Monitoring systems logs, events, event correlation,
maintaining performance statistics, and setting baseline statistics.
- Monitoring and managing the high availability
components including RAC, Data guard, RMAN, ASM, and the underlying
infrastructure for mission-critical databases.
- Developing, managing, and testing backup and
recovery plans and ensuring that storage, archiving, backup, and recovery
procedures are functioning properly.
- Take the 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 well as scheduling an update 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, and infrastructure, and monitor 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.
- Considering both back-end organization of data and
front-end accessibility for end-users and further refining the physical
design to meet system storage requirements.
- Installing database management systems (RDBMS) using
best practices; ensuring compliance with RDBMS license agreements and
maintaining upgrades and critical patches
- Database setup, configuration, and administration of
MYSQL, MSSQL
- Installation and administration of SAP HANA databases
- Creating and maintaining database documentation,
including data standards, procedures, and definitions for the data
dictionary (metadata), and maintaining all technical documentation
relating to database management.
- Communicating regularly with technical,
applications, and operational staff to ensure database integrity and
security.
- Perform under limited supervision, maintain the
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.
- 1 – 3 years in database technology with experience
deploying database and data warehousing technologies (e.g. High
Availability, Real Application Clusters, ESBU Backups, Partitioning,
Oracle DataGuard) 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, 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 DBA/IID/2023 by 13th February
2023.
We are an
equal-opportunity employer.
