About US:
Q Sourcing is an East African human resource consulting and outsourcing company, combining unparalleled experience and expertise across business functions.
Job Summary: The Database Administrator will provide Administration and maintenance of databases in the company in a 24 x 7, 99% uptime environment.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Responsible for the installation, configuration and maintenance of the organizations databases.
Maintain, tune and patch databases for optimum performance and security.
In charge of the designing, implementing and testing of new databases.
Actively participate in the design of new databases with consideration to your expertise.
Ensure changes are planned and implemented in a sound low risk manner with minimal system outages.
Prepare and maintain key team support documents.
Offer on-call support and participate in 24 x 7 roster rotation groups.
Assist Service Management and Application teams in solving problems.
Provide solutions architecture advice (where qualified / experienced to do so).
Provide Technical Project Management (where experience and asked to do so).
Provide technical support for costing solutions (hardware, software, and implementation labour), where experienced and / or being coached in doing so.
Escalate problems and concerns to the manager.
Monitoring the backups on the Oracle databases.
Performing database recovery tests with existing backups
Network backup monitoring.
Oracle Database licensing Database security and integrity of Data.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The Database Administrator should hold a Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field. OR equivalent qualification
Possession of Oracle, SQL administration certifications (Added advantage).
A minimum of two years’ administrative experience with clustered databases.
Proficiency in working in a redundant 24 x 7 high availability environment.
Proficiency in backup technologies, preferably EMC
Ability to perform calmly but efficiently and logically under stressful environments.
Ability to use rman for database backup and recovery.
Age: 25 years and above
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are invited to send a comprehensive CV by e-mail to recruitment@qsourcing.com.
Note: Kindly mark your application as “Application _Database Administrator” in the subject line of your email.
Deadline: 16th February, 2015 by 5:00 PM