Job Purpose Statement

The Databases Administrator role is to design, plan, implement and support the databases in the organisation, and the related infrastructure. The Database administrator should be expert in operating databases in different platforms especially different operating systems, Cloud implementations, Storage platforms, core database platforms. The role should design databases for the required performance, capacity management considerations, and should be capable to align the performance database requirements with the costs in implementing and supporting the platforms.

Ideal Job Specifications

Academic:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.

Professional:

• ITIL, OCA, OCP, OCM, other relevant professional qualifications in IT field would be an added advantage
• Project Management certification and experience is preferred e.g. PRINCE2, PMP

Desired work experience:

• Three years’ experience in databases and storage support on medium to large organizations.
• Working experience in a bank or other financial services organization would be added advantage