DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
Category: IT
Company: SAFARICOM KENYA
Posted on: Mar 24, 2025
2 weeks ago
Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure databases comply with security best practices and data integrity standards.
- Ensure regular reviews on information lifecycle management policies is conducted.
- Ensure optimal performance of all systems maintained conforming to the SLA agreements between business and Quality Assurance.
- Implement open-source databases as an alternative to existing proprietary solutions.
- Collaborate with developers, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to improve database efficiency and reliability.
- Automate database administration tasks using scripts and other automation tools.
Role Requirement and experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
- At least 4 years of hands-on experience managing large-scale database environments.
- Hands-on experience with replication, clustering, sharding, and high-availability configurations.
- Familiarity with on-premises and cloud-based database services (AWS RDS)
- Attention to details and analytical thinking.
- Knowledge of automation and scripting using Bash, Python, or Ansible for database administration.
- Design and implement conceptual, logical, and physical data models based on business requirements.
- Optimize data movement across systems while ensuring data integrity and minimal redundancy.
- Administer, manage, and monitor databases across development, test, stage, and production environments
- Implement high-availability solutions, replication, encryption, and disaster recovery strategies for PostgreSQL databases.
- Work extensively with PostgreSQL in AWS, ensuring scalability, security, and performance optimization.
- Setup and administration of MySQL database for both production and testing on a larger or small scale.
- Setup and administration of Microsoft SQL server databases in a large scale (Version 2014, 2016, 2019, and latest).
- Setup and administration of Mongo Server database(Production and test in Small Scale).
- Setup and administration of PostgreSQL databases in large/small scale.(Replications/Switchovers).
Preferred Skills and Certifications:
Cloud Certification
- AWS certified professional.
Operating System Certification
- Linux Professional Institute Certification
- Proficiency in data analysis techniques, statistics, and machine learning methodologies.