Senior Database Administrator

Recruiter:

The Hiring House

Job Ref:

JHB000439/AT

Date posted:

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Location:

Pretoria, South Africa

SUMMARY:
We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator in the insurance industry based in Pretoria.

POSITION INFO:
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Installation, configuration and upgrade of DBMS
- Implement database security policies, data encryption, account management and access control
- Ensure that database activities are monitored, to detect (and prevent) unauthorized activities and/or data breaches
- Design, develop, and implement databases in collaboration with development team
- Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HADR)
- Database risk and security management
- Change control between environments
- Perform regular backups of data and recovery and ensure data integrity.
- Enforce standards, policies & procedures relating to data
- Perform requests for the import and export of data
- Check & test performance, indexes and best practice
- Monitor and optimize database performance, tuning, storage management and allocating resources
- Update data base dictionary documentation
- Analyse, design and integrate data from all systems
- Plan, analyse and design involvement in all data conversions
- Provide 3rd line support where needed
- Plan, analyse, design & test adhoc project initiatives
- Interact with project owners and management, drive critical project and product trade-off decisions
- Monitor Service Desk queue and manage incidents, requests and problems experienced with systems, within agreed SLA
- Conduct research and make recommendations on DB products, services, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts
- Monitor DB growth and research alternative archiving and storage solutions
- Provide budgeting needs to Management

Formal Education:
- IT related degree/diploma
- Microsoft Certification (MCSA – Database Development & Administration)

Experience:
- IT experience: 7 years
- DBA: 3-5 years
- Project Management 2 years (advantage)
- Insurance industry experience: 2 – 3 years (advantage)
- Cloud computing with SQL Server: 2-3 years (advantage)

Please call us on for more information.

NB: Should you not hear from us in 6weeks please consider your application unsuccessful.

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