Junior Database Administrator at ABC Bank

The Bank is seeking to recruit a dynamic, creative, self-driven and highly motivated experienced professional with a good knowledge of the ICT Database Administration operations.
The Incumbent will be responsible for the installation, configuration, upgrade, administration, monitoring and maintenance of the organization's databases on Windows, Linux and Unix platforms.

The incumbent will perform amongst others the below responsibilities;

• Routine Database Administrator tasks; that is running health checks to ensure optimal Database performance on Linux, Solaris and Windows servers.
• Planning Capacity, managing Space while ensuring storage allocation.
• Installation, administration and troubleshooting of Oracle databases using best practice on Linux/Solaris/Windows.
• Implementation,  administration  and  troubleshooting  Oracle  data  guard  for  Primary  Data Replication.
• Handling  Oracle  Data  guard  switchover,  switchback  and  failover  in  case  of  production environment outage.
• Implementation of Oracle database security measures. ' Managing oracle database users and Database security.
• Unix Shell scripting for Oracle database backup automation — Cron jobs. Maintaining availability and integrity of oracle 10g/11g/12c databases.

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelors' degree in Information Technology or related degree.
• Certification in Linux, Solaris Unix, Oracle database, MSsqlserver or PostgresSQL administration.
• At least 3 years of experience in managing Solaris, Linux servers and Oracle databases
• Dependable and honest, with ability of maintaining confidentiality with high level of integrity and professional ethics.
• A conceptual thinker with ability to organize, plan, coordinate, prioritize and deliver projects in time.
• Participates effectively in a team-based information and value sharing environment.
• High client service orientation (internal and external) and initiative to solve problems, decision
• making, excellent analytical and communication skills — good interpersonal skills including oral and written communication.