Senior SQL Database Administator

The Role:
Our company is a leading omni-channel retailer, delighting our customers with an innovative range of curated products on personalized terms. Our aim is to provide multiple, convenient and easy retail shopping channels to guarantee that we meet all our customer expectations.

 
Skills and Experience:
Essential Qualification:
A relevant 3 year Information Technology Degree or Diploma
Minimum of 10 years experience in a similar role
Key Accountabilities:
Responsibility:
Monitor performance and manage parameters to provide fast query response to front-end users
Continuously consider both back-end organization of data and front-end accessibility for end-user
Maintain data standards, including adherence to the POPI Act
Troubleshoot and resolve the following problems: database integrity, performance, blocking and deadlocking, replication, log shipping, connectivity and security problems
Communicate regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security
Control access permissions and privileges
Develop, maintain, perform, and test database backup and recovery strategies and procedures
Ensure that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning correctly
Monitor database capacity
Provide proactive performance monitoring, and capacity planning for future database and server growth
Monitor capacity and performance, troubleshooting, and proactively resolving a wide variety of problems
Maintenance and monitoring of MSSQL, MySQL environments
Monitor and complete all DBA related Service desk calls
Improve business efficiency
Develop and maintain best practices database documentation
Research, and evaluate new databases trends and technologies and provide best practices and recommendations
Other:
Our Values:
Keep Innovating â?? we have the courage to contribute new ideas and turn those ideas into reality.
Think like an entrepreneur â?? we treat the business like it''s our own.
Keep it real â?? we are mindful of the impact of our words and actions.
Raise the bar â?? we strive to deliver excellence in everything that we do.