Database Administrator

• Job Type Full Time
• Qualification BA/BSc/HND
• Experience 5 years
• Location Nairobi
• Job Field ICT / Computer
• Troubleshoots network performance issues, analyses network traffic, and provides capacity planning solutions.
• Creating and maintaining database standards and policies.
• Supporting database design, creation, and testing activities.
• Managing the database availability and performance, including incident and problem management.
• Administering database objects to achieve optimum utilization.
• Defining and implementing event triggers that will alert on potential database performance or integrity issues.
• Performing database housekeeping, such as tuning, indexing, etc.
• Monitoring usage, transaction volumes, response times, concurrency levels, etc.
• Implementing security measures and frameworks, while ensuring compliance.
• Identifying, reporting, and managing database security issues, audit trails, and forensics.
• Designing database backup, archiving, and storage strategy.
• Installing upgrades and patches to various apps.
• Implement database security controls and best practices.
• Manage database users, privileges, and role-based access control.
• Perform quarterly access reviews and audit compliance activities.
• Implement encryption, masking, whitelisting, and database activity monitoring.
• Address audit findings and maintain regulatory compliance.
• Degree in science/Engineering/Computer Science.
• Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) or Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in Database Administration (19c or later).
• OCI certifications (e.g., OCI Foundations, Architect Associate) for cloud-focused roles.
• ITIL intermediate.
• Experience supporting high availability setups such as RAC, Data Guard, or ASM.
• Experience with database migrations (on-premises to cloud, or between versions or platforms).
• Experience working in 24/7 production support, including on-call rotations.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, or Azure) is an advantage.
• 5+ years of experience.