Job Title:    Database Administrator (5 Job Opportunities)

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 for the job: 

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: 16^th February, 2015 by 5:00 PM

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