# Database Administrator Job Britam

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Company: Britam

Category: Administration & Office Support

Location: Kenya

Work type: Full-time

Work arrangement: On-site

Published: 2026-10-23

Expires: 2026-12-07

## 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.

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