Database Administrator (Database Support and Maintenance) Contract | On-site – Pretoria

ENVIRONMENT:

Our client is a trusted ICT and digital transformation partner with a strong footprint across South Africa. They deliver end-to-end advisory, innovative technology solutions, managed services, and people solutions that drive measurable business impact, scale, and regulatory compliance.  They are seeking a Database Administrator Database Administrator to manage Oracle databases (11g/12c/19c) on UNIX (Solaris) through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems. Configure and maintain database servers, including monitoring of system health and performance.

DUTIES:

• Administration : Manage Oracle databases (11g/12c/19c) on UNIX (Solaris) through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems. Configure and maintain database servers, including monitoring of system health and performance.

• Performance: High levels of performance tuning, optimization, database partitioning and capacity planning;

• Availability: Ensure Dev, Staging and Production environments are functioning optimally;

• Security: Enforce security rules as defined by Oracle best practice, standard and Department security policies.

• Data Analysis: Apply data modelling techniques to ensure development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations;

• Troubleshooting: Independently analyse, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end. Able to take ownership of Oracle service request from problem to resolution;

• Backup and Recovery: High level skills of different backup and recovery and disaster recovery scenarios;

• Automation: Able to write bash scripts for process automation to track issues, and document changes;

• Middleware/application server Administration: from WebLogic 14 and WildFly 21;

• Oracle Enterprise Manager – OMS and Agents administration, configuration and monitoring; and

• Oracle High Availability solutions: RAC and Data Guard setup and administration.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Oracle 10g/12c Certification; •

• Minimum of 5 Years’ experience on Oracle Database administration; and

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience on Oracle Middleware.