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

DataFin was established in 1999. We pride ourselves on the fact that we have established relationships with industry leaders and a vast majority of our business is repeat business.

Duties & Responsibilities

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;
• Automatio n: 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.

Desired Experience & Qualification

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