Are you looking for an employer who promotes individual
excellence and mutual respect in a team-driven culture with a key focus on
social empowerment?
The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, “the Kingdom Bank” is the place for those looking to new horizons.
We are looking for dynamic, creative and self-oriented professionals to fill the position of:
Database Administrator
Job Summary:
Reporting to Manager Business Systems, Information & Communication
Technology Department, the person is 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
setting up of optimal performance bench marks, use of modern and appropriate
tools coupled with best practice.The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, “the Kingdom Bank” is the place for those looking to new horizons.
We are looking for dynamic, creative and self-oriented professionals to fill the position of:
Database Administrator
Job Summary:
The holder will also ensure high systems availability and improvements to meet business growth demands, ensure timely intervention by key stake holders, improved performance, enhanced system security, business continuity and competitiveness in product and service development.
Main Duties:
- Monitoring
and managing the high availability components including RAC, Dataguard,
RMAN, ASM for mission critical databases
- Developing,
managing and testing back-up and recovery plans and ensuring that storage,
archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning properly
- Allocation
and Management of Data Storage Systems including SAN, NAS, Tape Libraries,
etc.
- Manage
key I.T. risks for all database systems and ensure proper mitigation
- Take
lead role in BCP and disaster recovery preparedness through periodic
testing as scheduled and update of disaster recovery procedures and
sharing the results with management
- Perform
database tasks such as schema design, capacity planning, maintenance,
trouble shooting, 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 practice, ensure compliance
with RDBMS license agreements and maintain upgrades and critical patches
- Creating
and maintaining database documentation, including data standards,
procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata) and maintain
all technical documentation relating to database management
- Attend
to system failure and resolve/co-ordinate resolution of the problem
- Establish
and maintain business relationships with vendors, consultants and other
outside entities providing services to the bank.
- Monitor
performance of the SLAs to ensure that the database gets maximum value
from the services
- 24/7
availability for support ofthe bank’s mission critical systems
- Establishing
the needs of users and monitoring user access and security and controlling
database access permissions and privileges
- Continually
monitor security events in the network, take corrective actions and
generate reports for management
Job specification:
The incumbent will be required to possess the following qualifications, attributes and skills:
The incumbent will be required to possess the following qualifications, attributes and skills:
- Bachelor’s
degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology,
or related discipline, or equivalent
- 3-5
years in database technology with experience deploying Oracle technologies
(e.g., Database, RAC, ASM, OEM/Grid, RMAN, Partitioning, Data Guard, Data
Compression) in production environments
- Oracle
RDBMS 81, 9i,1 0g, 1 1 g OCP certification and experience
- Thorough
knowledge of MS SQL databases
- Thorough
knowledge in SOA, Oracle Fusion Middleware technology including Oracle
Form Services, Weblogic, etc
- Proficiency
in SQL, SQL Plus, PLSQL
- Strong
knowledge in SAN, NAS storage systems
- Must
have worked in a Large, complex OLTP High Availability Database
environment
- Proficiency
in various operating systems like Unix, Linux, windows
- Networking
skills especially ¡n the area of the Oracle Clusterware and Storage administrator
skills for ASM and OCFS2
- 35
years or below
We are an equal opportunity employer.
N.B: Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Please quote this reference on your application and on the envelope:
Information Security Manager - ICT/ADMIN/2011
The Director
Human Resources Division
Co-operative Bank of Kenya Ltd.
P.O. Box 48231 -00100
Nairobi
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