Database Administrator at Xpress Payment Solutions Limited

About the job

The successful candidate for this role will ensure that the Database is maintained and monitored for effective performance, carry out on-going system maintenance to support the efficient day-day running of the organization’s current and future business.

Responsibilities:

Database Administration

• Develop and enforce database standards, guidelines and operational policies and procedures.
• Review physical structures and migration plans.
• Review necessary storage media with System Administrator.
• Review SQL performance and Tuning.
• Reviewing application's access to the database structures
• Review, where required, the purge/archive criteria.
• Develop backs and recovery plan adhering to risks policies.
• Assist in developing purge/archive criteria and procedures for historical application data.
• Monitor and tune memory usage for Oracle databases.
• Implement, maintain, and test backup & recovery strategies.
• Create instances and databases with appropriate initialization parameters and database structures (i.e., datafiles, rollback segments, tablespaces, etc.)
• Review and monitor system and instance resources to insure continuous database operations (i.e., database storage, memory, CPU, network usage, and I/O contention.
• Developing & maintaining naming standards for database objects such as tablespaces, tables, indexes & views.

Qualifications: BSc in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering or any other related discipline. 2-3 years’ experience as a Database Administrator. IT certification and database knowledge and programming language will be an added advantage