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Database Administrator
Britam · Nairobi
Full Time · On-site · Senior · Posted Oct 2026 | closes 6 Nov 2026
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Description

Job Purpose:

  • Troubleshoots network performance issues, analyses network traffic, and provides capacity planning solutions.

Key responsibilities:

  • 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.

Knowledge, experience and qualifications required:

  • 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.