Senior Database Administrator - Pretoria
Salary Negotiable
Pretoria,
Gauteng
more than 14 days ago
Key areas of responsibility:
- Supports others by treating them with dignity, respect and fairness.
- Takes ownership for quality by dedicating the required time and energy to assignments and making sure no aspect of the work is neglected.
- Demonstrates passion by taking immediate/ independent action when confronted by a problem or made aware of a situation, while suggesting new ideas/ solutions to problems.
- Completes all project work / allocated tasks on time / as per agreed schedule and communicates progress with all parties concerned.
- Takes on additional, unplanned projects as required by the business and works after hours where necessary.
- Resolves HEAT calls and escalations assigned by Team Lead/ Support Desk ensuring that all issues are followed up on and resolved. Keeps client informed at all times with the progress of calls / issues.
- Makes clients and their needs a primary focus of one's actions and attention, while developing / maintaining productive client relationships.
- Actively seeks to understand client circumstances, problems, expectations and needs, while resolving problems quickly.
- Provides 24 hour standby support by being available on a 24/7 basis during specified periods, in accordance with the DBA standby schedule.
- Sets and maintains operational database standards on an ongoing basis.
- Enforces and improves database integrity and performance through the use of sound design principles and set down database design standards.
- Designs and enforces data security policies to eliminate unauthorized access to data on managed data systems in accordance with IT Services technical specifications and business requirements.
- Ensures that effective data redundancy; archiving, backup and recovery mechanisms are in place to prevent the loss of data.
- Sets up configurable pre-established jobs to automatically run on a daily basis, to monitor and maintain the operational databases.
- Relevant IT Degree or Diploma
- 4 – 7 years’ DBA experience
- SQL Log shipping
- Powershell
- Have your own SQL blog
- Service broker
- Triggers
- SQL DMV’s
- Understanding of SQL internals
- SSIS
- TSQL Scripting experience
- Microsoft SQL Server (Administration Implementation)
- CPU Performance Tuning
- Storage Area Networks for DBAs
- Query Plan Analysis
- Data File Internals and Maintenance
- Plan Cache and Index Analysis
- Memory Performance Tuning:
- SQL replication
- Transactions and Locking
- Logging, Recovery, and Log File Internals and Maintenance
- Backup Internals and Strategy
- Index Fragmentation
- Index Internals
- Internals and Data Access
- Indexing Strategies
- Table Design Strategies
- Corruption Detection and Recovery
- Virtualization:
- CPU
- Hardware and Architectures
- Database Snapshots
Recruiter: CompuJobs