Supervisor – Database Administrator (DBA) at Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)

Job Summary:     

This role is responsible for installation, configuration, operation and maintenance of databases

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertakes planning for database installations.
• Carries out database software installation and configuration
• Performs software upgrades and patching.
• Performs database monitoring, troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Implements database security as per security policy
• Develops strategy for database backup, testing and recovery
• Undertaking data Backup and Recovery
• Carries out database changes and updates during deployments of application releases.
• Maintains documentation for all database instance parameters and system settings
• Performs appropriate database sizing activities and capacity planning
• Executes data extraction for reporting as per user requests.
• Ensure conformity to ISO (9001:2015 and 27001:2013) and data security requirements

Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications or any other IT related field.

Professional Qualifications  

 Required Certification

• Certification in Database administration.
• Red Hat/Unix/Linux Certified Systems Administrator/Microsoft Certified Engineer

The following certifications will be an added advantage:

• COBIT 5
• ITIL
• Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
• JBOSS, Oracle Weblogic  

Relevant Work Experience Required

• Have at least three (3) years hands-on experience in RDBMS installation, tuning and troubleshooting in a busy environment.
• Have working experience in Unix and Windows operating systems in a busy environment

Skills Required:

• Ability to manage enterprise databases on RDBMS like Oracle, Postgress, MySql and MS SQL Server.
• Demonstrate ability to diagnose and performance tune databases for optimal performance
• Experience in Programming/scripting languages such as SQL, PL/SQL
• Ability to install and configure Linux/ Windows installations,