A
leading local financial institution hereby invites applications from suitably
qualified, experienced and self-motivated IT professionals with excellent
credentials to fill the following vacancies in the Information Management
Services Division:
1. Oracle Applications Administrator (Applications DBA)
He/She shall be charged with the responsibility of administering, managing and maintaining Oracle Applications installations.
Key Duties & Responsibilities1. Oracle Applications Administrator (Applications DBA)
He/She shall be charged with the responsibility of administering, managing and maintaining Oracle Applications installations.
- 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.
Salary
The starting salary for this position will be Kshs 99,706.20.
Opportunity for career growth will be based on performance
2. Oracle Database Administrator
The ideal 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
The starting salary for this position will be Kshs 99,706.20.
Opportunity for career growth will be based on performance
2. Oracle Database Administrator
The ideal 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.
- Performing
database re-organizations as required to assist performance and ensure
maximum uptime of the database.
- 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.
The starting salary for this position WIN be Kshs 99,706.20.
Opportunity for career growth will be based on performance
If you meet the above requirements and consider yourself proactive, self-driven and up to the challenge, please send your application and updated curriculum Vitae to:
TS/2148
P.O. Box 49990-00100
Nairobi
So as to be received on or before 17th February , 2012.
Note:
Please do not apply for these positions if you do not have the required qualifications, experience or competencies as per the advertisement.
Applications received after deadline will not be considered.
Only short listed candidates shall be contacted and any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification