Group Database Administrator
Purpose:
Responsible for
recommending, implementing, and monitoring system database as well as providing
support to the application system administrator and implementing best practices
and procedures to manage the company’s data and information. He/ She will provide
DBA support for production, development, and test Database environments and
resolve database performance issues. Maintain end-to-end responsibilities for
databases (Oracle, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL).
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for installation, configuration, optimization,
tuning, upgrade & maintenance of database instances including
maintaining database backup and recovery infrastructure both on-premise
and offsite to meet Business Data Recovery Objectives.
- Management of project implementation tasks and administering
of Oracle Fusion Middleware (WebLogic, BI, ODI, Audit Vault, Database
firewall), including patching and cloning WebLogic domains. Manage and
support high-performance, highly available, and mission-critical database
platforms (Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB) for the
Insurance core applications and other systems.
- Working with both internal and external auditors to ensure
database systems adhere to the Company policies and licensing requirements
and promptly addressing any violations raised and overseeing continuous
service level improvement initiatives associated with core processes and
mission-critical systems.
- Review and design database structures, Oracle RAC, Oracle
Data Guard, ASM, SQL server transactional replication, and MySQL group
clusters to support business requirements including logical and physical
database modeling.
- Implement and perform database backup and recovery strategies
that meet recovery and availability requirements.
- Making requested changes, updates, and modifications to
database structures and migrating approved database changes from test into
production environments, ensuring IT change management policies are
adhered to.
- Manage and support Enterprise Data warehouse including the
development of reports from the data warehouse platform.
- Works with various teams to ensure that the associated
hardware resources are allocated to the databases and to ensure high
availability and optimum performance.
- Implement database security policies that are consistent with
CIC group security policies.
- Implement best practices and incorporate them into DBA
procedures
- Implement database security policies that are consistent with
CIC Insurance Group security policies.
- Implement best practices and incorporate them in DBA
procedures.
Academic and
Professional Requirements
Education
- Minimum of bachelor’s degree in an ICT-related field from a
reputable university
- Computer literate in MS Office and other office applications
- Certification in either of the following; OCP/OCA database
Certification
- Good Knowledge of WebLogic, Business Intelligence, ODI, IIS,
Audit Vault, Database firewall, and databases (Oracle, MS SQL Server,
MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Strong knowledge of high availability configurations, and
clustering technologies.
- In-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix and Windows server Operating
systems.
Experience Required:
- Relevant experience 5
How To Apply
Apply before or on 12 Jan
2024
