Database Administrator – (21000072)
We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the Digital IT Department within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below:Reporting to the Senior Manager – Infrastructure and Cloud Solutions, the role holder responsibilities will include Administration, Performance tuning, Capacity planning, management and 3rd line support of ALL Safaricom Enterprise Systems including Oracle eBusiness Suite (ERP), BI Systems, Loyalty Management System, Billing databases, CRM Fraud Management, Revenue Assurance, POS and all other IT database systems.
Responsibilities
- Database administration and support lifecycle
including backup/recovery, automation, maintenance
- Supporting the development, system test, user
acceptance, and training and production database environments.
- 99% availability maintained for all databases.
- 95% of tickets raised are responded to within the
1st hour of incident reporting.
- 90% of tickets closure maintained
- Identifying and implementing Best Practices for
Database Administration.
- Design BCP and HA solutions for critical systems
in order to achieve zero downtime during maintenance and failures.
- Assisting Infrastructure, EBU teams and other
Technology teams with hardware and support requirements for database
administration.
- Conformance to security standards for databases
and data integrity
- Develop retention policies and architecture for
all systems, whilst maintaining BCP.
- Regular reviews on ILM policies conducted.
- Dimensioning of systems to be done periodically
based on demand experienced and projected.
- Optimal performance of all systems maintained
conforming to the SLA agreements between business and Quality Assurance
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science or Technical related
Field with at least 4 years hands on Experience in managing large
databases Experience in Oracle RAC, Data guard and RMAN will be added
advantage.
- Certification –OCP DBA; Oracle Apps Systems
Administration; SQL Server Administration
- Proactive & self-motivated;
- Good public relations, communication &
interpersonal.
Note to Applicants
As part of the interview
process, external candidates should prepare the following documentation which
will be required as soft copies at a later stage based on your
performance in the interviews/assessments.
a) An
updated CV with contacts of three referees, 2 who must be professional and must
have supervised you at some point, the other referee can be a colleague in the
same professional field.
b) Kenyan
Certificate of Good Conduct (Less than 1 year old) or a receipt of the same
from the CID pending release of the hardcopy document.
c) Clearance
certificate from a reputable Credit Reference Bureau (CRB).
d) University
Diploma/Degree Certificate/ Letter of completion from University in case you
have not received your diploma/degree certificate.
e) National
ID/Passport.
How To
Apply
Persons with
Disabilities (PwD) and Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
