Senior Specialist; Database Adminstration Job Opportunity at NMB Bank PLC

Position:Senior Specialist; Database Adminstration 

Dar es Salaam
NMB Bank PLC

Job Location :
Head Office, Hq

Job Purpose:
Installation, configuration and maintenance of multiple high-available database models.
Support implementation projects which mostly includes migration of databases to other platforms.
Administer, proactively monitor and troubleshoot 24×7 production environment database servers and associated infrastructure.

Main Responsibilities:

• Provide recommendations on database architecture, design and implementations.
• Designs and implements policies and procedures for disaster recovery and data archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of data assets.
• Plan and coordinate data migrations between systems.
• Technical leadership responsibilities of database projects across various teams in the organization.
• Ensuring availability of all organization databases.
• Implement and proactively monitor all databases to predict and diagnose the majority of problems before they impact application performance or user experience.
• Monitor and report on resource intensive applications and suggest ways to improve performance.
• Conduct performance tuning of database, troubleshooting, and capacity planning of disk space, memory and connections.
• Take ownership of issues, work independently or escalate as needed, and find creative ways to resolve problems.
• Manage and maintain vendor relationships for service, support, and troubleshooting issues.
• Provide training and documentation for knowledge transfer to other database team members.

Knowledge and Skills:

• In-depth knowledge of database management (Installation, creation of new instances, space management, database reorganization, backup and recovery, performance monitoring and troubleshooting, identification of bottlenecks in locks, waits).
• Strong working knowledge of databases with relevant certifications.
• Good understanding of security standards and best practices.
• Maintaining high-availability database environments
• Troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Oracle Database Machine Administration (DMA) skills.
• Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance and Exadata Storage Administration.
• Technical documentation skills.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science or any other related discipline.
• Relevant professional certifications including Oracle 12C Certified Professional (OCP) or higher.
• 5 years of Database Administration experience in Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Maria DB, Postgress or other commercial/open-source database platforms.
• Experience with migrating mission critical database environments from one platform to another.
• Experience working with high availability, disaster recovery and server tuning strategies
• Experience with Replication, Log Shipping, Change Data Capture and Database Mirroring.
• Experience in Operating Systems administration; Linux, Unix, Solaris and Windows.
• NMB Bank Plc is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Senior Specialist; Database Adminstration Job Opportunity at NMB Bank PLC

Job opening date : 30-Jun-2022
Job closing date : 14-Jul-2022

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