Database Administrator at Pambazuka National Lottery

Responsibilities for the Database Administrator Job

• Identify database requirements by analyzing department applications, programming, and operations; evaluating existing systems and designing proposed systems.
• Recommend solutions by defining database physical structure and functional capabilities, database security, data back-up, and recovery specifications.
• Maintains database performance by calculating optimum values for database parameters; implementing new releases; completing maintenance requirements; evaluating computer operating systems and hardware products.
• Supports database functions by designing and coding utilities.
• Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• mapping out the conceptual design for a planned database;
• installing and testing new versions of the DBMS;
• maintaining data standards, including adherence to the Data Protection Act;
• writing database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata);
• controlling access permissions and privileges;
• developing, managing and testing back-up and recovery plans;
• ensuring that storage and archiving procedures are functioning correctly;
• capacity planning;
• working closely with IT project managers, database programmers
• communicating regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security;
• commissioning and installing new applications and customizing existing applications in order to make them fit for purpose.

Qualifications for the Database Administrator Job

• Undergraduate Degree in IT/ Computer Science/ BBIT or any other relevant course
• Database Certification – MySQL Clusters is preferred. Oracle DBA’s can be considered.
• Proficiency in Liunx Operating Systems is an added advantage.
• Minimum of 4 years work experience as a DBA
• Database Performance Tuning, Database Security, Promoting Process Improvement, Problem Solving,
• Presenting Technical Information, Quality Focus, Database Management, Data Maintenance, Operating
• Systems – Linux is an added Advantage, Attention to Detail, Information Security Policies