Oracle Database Administrator IV - Kenya Power
Information Technology
Nairobi
Published On:
23rd, May 2023
Closes on:
31st, May 2023
Job closed
Job Description
Reporting to the Principal System Administrator, the successful candidates will ensure effective provisioning and maintenance of core database platform to ensure availability, reliability and data integrity of the mission critical business systems.
Responsibilities:
- Implement policies, procedures, and technologies to ensure database security through secure access, monitoring, control, and routine security evaluations.
- Perform standard configuration, management, and maintenance tasks for database systems and underlying server infrastructure.
- Perform and test database configuration backups and restores to ensure system recovery from error or outage.
- Perform and test data backups and restores to ensure disaster recovery.
- Review and deploy database patch releases according to best practices.
- Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware and software problems on all systems.
- Monitor, test, and tune database performance; preserve and provide database log files as needed.
- Develop and implement contingency plans to guarantee systems operations during emergencies.
- Develop and implement efficient preventative maintenance schedules for servers, consoles and peripherals.
- Participate in and support capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for systems and software in conjunction with end-users and department managers.
- Coordinate with network engineers and system administration functions to implement systems that utilize industry best practices to meet corporate objectives.
Requirements: