Database Administrator

Britam Holdings Plc is a a diversified financial services group, listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The company offers a wide range of financial products and services, including insurance, asset management, banking, and property.

The Database Administrator at Britam Holdings Plc is responsible for ensuring the optimal performance, availability, and security of databases. This includes creating and maintaining database standards, supporting design and testing, managing performance and incidents, and administering database objects for efficient utilization. The role also involves defining and implementing event triggers for alerts, performing housekeeping tasks like tuning and indexing, and monitoring usage metrics. A key aspect is implementing security measures, managing security issues, audit trails, and forensics, as well as designing backup, archiving, and storage strategies. The administrator will also install upgrades and patches, manage users, privileges, and access control, conduct quarterly access reviews, implement encryption and monitoring, and address audit findings to maintain regulatory compliance.

1. Create and maintain database standards and policies.
2. Support database design, creation, and testing activities.
3. Manage database availability and performance, including incident and problem management.
4. Administer database objects to achieve optimum utilization.
5. Define and implement event triggers to alert on potential database performance or integrity issues.
6. Perform database housekeeping tasks such as tuning and indexing.
7. Monitor usage, transaction volumes, response times, and concurrency levels.
8. Implement security measures and frameworks, ensuring compliance.
9. Identify, report, and manage database security issues, audit trails, and forensics.
10. Design database backup, archiving, and storage strategy.
11. Install upgrades and patches to various applications.
12. Implement database security controls and best practices.
13. Manage database users, privileges, and role-based access control.
14. Perform quarterly access reviews and audit compliance activities.
15. Implement encryption, masking, whitelisting, and database activity monitoring.
16. Address audit findings and maintain regulatory compliance.

1. Hold a Bachelor's Degree in Science, Engineering, or Computer Science.
2. Possess Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) or Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in Database Administration (19c or later).
3. Have OCI certifications (e.g., OCI Foundations, Architect Associate) for cloud-focused roles.
4. Hold an ITIL intermediate certification.
5. Demonstrate experience supporting high availability setups such as RAC, Data Guard, or ASM.
6. Have experience with database migrations (on-premises to cloud, or between versions or platforms).
7. Possess experience working in 24/7 production support, including on-call rotations.
8. Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, or Azure) is an advantage.
9. Have 5+ years of experience.