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.