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Administration & Office Support
Database Administrator Job Britam
Britam
Kenya
Full-time
On-site
Posted: 1 hour ago
Expires: Dec 7, 2026
Salary:
Not listed
Job description
IT Jobs, Britam Jobs. Database Administrator manages and maintains database systems, requires a Degree in Science/Engineering/Computer Science, OCA or OCP certification (19c+), and 5+ years database administration experience. Full-time role in Nairobi.
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.