Certifications
Below certifications will be an advantage
- MCSE DBA
- Oracle Associate or its equivalent
Job Objective(s)
- Perform technical and administrative oversight of all the database management systems as acquired by the bank in a cost-effective manner.
- The Database Administrator’s role is to design, install, monitor, maintain, and carry out performance tuning of production and test databases while ensuring high levels of data availability.
- This individual is also responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing database policies and procedures to ensure the confidentiality, Integrity and availability of databases.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Monitors databases for availability.
- Performs maintenance and housekeeping operations on Oracle and or MSSQL databases.
- Performs database backup and restore.
- Performs performance tuning of Oracle and or MSSQL databases.
- Installation, configuration and upgrading of (DBMS) Database Management System, e.g. Oracle, MSSQL and MYSQL server software and related products.
- Evaluate DBMS features and related products as used by the Bank.
- Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures.
- Take care of the Database design and implementation.
- Implement and maintain database security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges).
- Make exception reports to management on database related issues.
- Interface with relevant OEMs – Oracle Corporation, Microsoft for technical support on database related issues.
- Respond to and resolve database access and performance issues.
- Monitor database system details within the database, including stored procedures and execution time, and implement efficiency improvements.
- Plan and coordinate data migrations between systems.
Experience / Skills
- Strong understanding of database structures, theories, principles.
- Working technical experience with designing, building, installing, configuring and supporting databases
- Working technical experience with database administration tasks such as database implementations, backups, and account maintenance.
- Working technical experience with administering database platform specific advanced features – clustering, RAC, logical/physical standby, replication.
- Hands-on database tuning and troubleshooting experience.
- Good understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives
