Database Administration - Database Administrator at Safaricom Kenya

Job Description

Reporting to the Support Lead Fintech, Financial Services IT, the position holder will be responsible for Administration, Performance tuning and 2nd line support of ALL Financial services Database (DB) Systems that include DBs for Core M-pesa databases, and all other IT database systems that integrate to M-pesa. The databases span from Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Cassandra and cloud related database platforms. 

Responsibilities

Role purpose: 

• Database administration and support lifecycle including backup/recovery, automation, maintenance.
• Ensure 99.99% availability maintained for all critical databases.
• Ensure tickets raised are responded to within the agreed SLA.
• Test BCP and HA solutions for critical systems to achieve zero downtime during maintenance and failures.
• Ensure Conformance to security standards for databases and data integrity.
• 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.
• Implement monitoring solutions on the various databases.
• Provide SME knowledge to Safaricom enterprise database and application engineers.

Qualifications

Role Requirement and experience

• Degree in Computer Science or Technical Related Field.
• With at least 4 years hands on Experience in Managing large databases.
• Experience in NoSQL databases, Mysql and other OpenSource databases platforms. 
• Experience in Oracle RAC, Dataguard, RMAN and Engineered systems.
• Experience in Linux/Unix Operating system.
•  Database Systems Administration Techniques – understanding of DB Performance tuning on various Operating Systems, good troubleshooting skills, Database Migration and ILM techniques.
• Attention to details and analytical thinking.
•  Certifications –OCP, OCE; EXADATA Administration; MSSQL Server Administration; Cloud Databases Administration; Linux/ UNIX certification

Additional Details

Knowledge in below is an added advantage.

• Oracle Fusion and Weblogic administration
• Cassandra, Mongo, Hadoop or any other NoSQL database