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More than 3 years working experience as an Oracle DBA (Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g& 11g) on Windows Platform, UNIX and Linux environments.
Minimum certification of OCA.
Preferred OCP with specialisation in RAC, Dataguard and ERP Technical etc.
Salary – Market related.

You will be responsible for the following duties:

• Installation, configuration and upgrading of Oracle software and related products;
• Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures;
• Take care of the Database design and implementation;
• Implement and maintain database security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges);
• Database tuning and performance monitoring;
• Application tuning and performance monitoring;
• Setup and maintain documentation and standards;
• Plan growth and changes (capacity planning);
• Work as part of a team and provide 24/7 support when required;
• Do general technical trouble shooting and give consultation to development teams;
• Develop scripts, cronjobs etc. Database consolidation for various database for monthly reports;
• Managing replication services for various databases;
• Configuring, monitoring daily backup Health checks;
• Database restore and recovery;
• Troubleshooting application problems related to the database;
• Data imports and exports;
• Good working experience with Oracle RAC and High Availability concepts (Replication, log shipping);
• Drafting Disaster Recovery Plan documentation and Drafting Policy Based Management documentation;
• Weekly and Monthly feedback on status of Database environment.

Experience required:

More than 3 years DBA working experience with Microsoft SQL Server Databases (SQL 2000/2005/2008) on Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server, Windows XP & Windows 7 environments.
Certification on MS SQL Server 2005 – 2008 is preferred or MSTC plus exposure to SSIS.
Salary – Market Related.

You will be responsible for the following duties:

• Installation, configuration and upgrading of Microsoft SQL Server software and related products
• Evaluate MSSQL / related products
• Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures
• Take care of the Database design and implementation
• Implement and maintain database security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges)
• Database tuning and performance monitoring
• Application tuning and performance monitoring
• Setup and maintain documentation and standards
• Plan growth and changes (capacity planning); Work as part of a team and provide 24/7 support when required
• Do general technical trouble shooting and give consultation to development teams
• Database consolidation for various database for monthly reports
• Managing replication services for various databases
• Configuring, monitoring daily backup maintenance plans
• Database restore and recovery
• Troubleshooting application problems related to the database
• Using SQL Server tools to troubleshoot database related problems
• Data imports and exports using SQL Server integration services (SSIS),ETL
• Good working experience with SQL Server High Availability concepts (Replication, log shipping and database mirroring)
• Drafting Disaster Recovery Plan documentation and Drafting Policy Based Management documentation.
• Weekly and Monthly feedback on status of Database environment.

Essential Skills

• Grade 12
• IT Qualification
• Systems Administration/System Engineer certification in Linux and VMware/KVM.
• SAN/NAS experience
• Storage pools and assigning storage to hosts
• Nagios/Zabbix experience
• RHCSA/RHCE certification

You will be responsible for the following duties:

• Installing and configuring DRBD block replication.
• Installation, implementation, and configuration as well as ongoing support of the Linux Infrastructure.
• Create virtual machines on VMWare as well as bare-metal with the applicable distribution.
• Linux Patch Level management.
• Experience in Firewall, and security enhanced Linux (Selinux).
• Creating and managing KVMs.
• Creating and managing VMware VMs.
• Install and configure virtual machines through cockpit virtual machine manager.
• Evaluate and maintain information security throughout the Linux infrastructure.
• Converting VMware VMDK disks to KVM’s qcow2 disk formats.
• Install, configure, maintain, and monitor the Zabbix monitoring tool.
• Ensure the highest level of infrastructure availability.
• Maintain backup and redundancy strategies.
• Provide 3rd level support.
• Work with developers to transition applications from one platform to the other, and that includes from physical to virtual environment.
• Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems to include inventory and patch level of all system, and that it is kept up to date.
• Install, support and maintain OpenVPN server and clients.
• Install and configure Microsoft SQL Server.
• Install and configure MSSQL replication.
• Installing and configuration of AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AAG).
• Install and maintain MSSQL Server patch level.
• Co-ordinate with the change management teams to prepare the MSSQL servers for patching.
• Additionally, involved in patch planning, co-ordination and execution of recent patching cycle.
• Install and configure Monitoring tools such as Zabbix, SolarWinds monitoring

For more information, contact:

Jennifer Mbesa

RDB Consulting

Tel: 011-8077663

Email: info@rdbconsulting.com