Team Leader Database - Randburg, South Africa - Career Circuit

Career Circuit

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Randburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor's degree or Equivalent IT Qualification or Diploma

Mandatory:
Microsoft Training and Certifications in Data Management

Minimum 7+ Years Working Experience

4+ years of experience managing people in a technical environment.

4+ years experience in participating in on-call rotations and providing after-hours support in an environment that operates 24/7

5+ years of experience with as an Application OR Systems DBA

Non-Negotiable Skills/Experience:

Experience with Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools

Experience with backups, restores and recovery models

Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server

Experience working with Windows server, including Active Directory

Added Advantage:

Experience and product specific training as it relates to the role and technologies in use.

ITIL, CobIT.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Supporting one NoSQL technology as a DBA desired.

ITIL Change Management, Problem Management, Incident Management etc. procedures using tools (Service Now, BMC Remedy).

Migrating Relational / SQL environments to NoSQL environments.

Pro-actively evaluate evolving technologies and recommend solutions to business problems.

Setting up, monitoring and troubleshooting popular Relational Databases.

Troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication issues, log shipping issues, connectivity issues, security issues etc.

Master in Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, leveraging appropriate monitoring and troubleshooting tools.

Oracle performance monitoring tools and methods.

Expertise with physical and logical schema design and troubleshoot common issues.

Detect and troubleshoot potential database related issues and constraints (CPU, memory, I/O, disk space, etc.).

Data loading into RDBMS from other non-RDBMS systems.

Strong knowledge of backups, restores, recovery models, database shrink operations, Database commands, Clustering, Database mirroring, Replication.

Index management, integrity checks, configuration, patching. How statistics work, how indexes are stored, how they can be created and managed effectively.

Documentation skills for processes and procedures (creating Knowledge Transfer documents, run-books, topology etc.)

Exemplify the desired culture and philosophies of the organization.

Ability to be on call production support on a rotation basis.

Leads / Participates in planning for system development and expansion.

Leads / Participates in systems software and/or hardware projects.

Manages projects of limited scope or portions of large and/or complex projects.

Guides technical staff on a project basis.