Database Administrator at Britam

Job Purpose: 

• Troubleshoots network performance issues, analyses network traffic, and provides capacity planning solutions.  

Key responsibilities:

• Creating and maintaining database standards and policies. 
• Supporting database design, creation, and testing activities. 
• Managing the database availability and performance, including incident and problem management. 
• Administering database objects to achieve optimum utilization. 
• Defining and implementing event triggers that will alert on potential database performance or integrity issues. 
• Performing database housekeeping, such as tuning, indexing, etc. 
• Monitoring usage, transaction volumes, response times, concurrency levels, etc. 
• Implementing security measures and frameworks, while ensuring compliance. 
• Identifying, reporting, and managing database security issues, audit trails, and forensics. 
• Designing database backup, archiving, and storage strategy. 
• Installing upgrades and patches to various apps. 
• Implement database security controls and best practices. 
• Manage database users, privileges, and role-based access control. 
• Perform quarterly access reviews and audit compliance activities. 
• Implement encryption, masking, whitelisting, and database activity monitoring. 
• Address audit findings and maintain regulatory compliance.

Knowledge, experience and qualifications required: 

• Degree in science/Engineering/Computer Science.
• Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) or Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in Database Administration (19c or later).
• OCI certifications (e.g., OCI Foundations, Architect Associate) for cloud-focused roles.  
• ITIL intermediate. 
• Experience supporting high availability setups such as RAC, Data Guard, or ASM. 
• Experience with database migrations (on-premises to cloud, or between versions or platforms). 
• Experience working in 24/7 production support, including on-call rotations. 
• Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, or Azure) is an advantage. 
• 5+ years of experience.