Database Administrator - (CONTRACT)

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Purpose of the Job:

This position involves providing database administration support of the infrastructure for the data and databases for a new project. The person will work very closely with the software vendor in order to be able to support solution. The technology stack includes Linux servers, Hadoop servers, Postgres, a propriety NoSQL database. The person will have to do daily operational support of these databases as well as engage developers to gain an understanding of the solution in order to provide quality support.

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Job objectives:

• To work with software vendor for knowledge transfer.
• Engage with software vendor to get a detailed understanding of how the data/database needs to be managed.
• Produce documentation so that other DBA’s are able to provide support of the system.
• Understand how data access/auditing is done.
• Understand how data backup/recovery is implemented.

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• To carry out database administration tasks enduring data is available, protected and recoverable.
• Perform daily health checks for databases and resolve any issues identified.
• Ensure database backups are scheduled and completing successfully
• Verify backups are valid by testing restore process regularly.
• Monitor databases so that capacity constraints can be mitigated by timeous provisioning of resources.
• Close incidents within SLA.
• Execute database changes according to change management process.
• Assist developers with any database issues.

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• To ensure information security and regulatory compliance.
• Ensuring system security meets regulatory compliance.
• Manage server security remediation activities which will include conducting scans and patching

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• To carry out database administration tasks ensuring data is available, protected and recoverable.
• Perform daily health checks for databases and resolve any issues identified.
• Ensure database backups are scheduled and completing successfully.
• Verify backups are valid by testing restore process regularly.
• Monitor databases so that capacity constraints can be mitigated by timeous provisioning of resources.
• Close incidents within SLA.
• Execute database changes according to change management process.
• Assist developers with any database issues.

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Qualifications:

Essential:

• Grade 12
• Desirable:
• Industry Certification: AWS/Azure Certification
• MongoDB or Cassandra or Hadoop Certification

Experience:

Essential:

• 3+ Years Managing all aspects of at least one NoSQL database management systems from Installation, configuration, backup management and security. E. g. MongoDB, Cassandra, other.
• 3+ Years’ Experience in administering one or more of the Relational Database Management Systems such as MySQL or Postgres.

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Desirable:

• 3+ Years’ Experience working with services in Azure and/or AWS
• 3+ Years Exposure to one or more Apache Software Foundation Big Data & Database projects such as Hadoop, Hbase

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Job Related Knowledge:

Essential:

• 4+ Years General understanding of database management concepts

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Job Related Skills:

Essential:

• 3+ Years Proficient with installing, configuring, administering, using and benchmarking NoSQL solutions.
• 3 + Years Basic familiarity with Linux operating system
• 3+ Years’ Experience engineering and/or administering NoSQL infrastructure
• 3+ Years Proficient with one or more Apache Software Foundation Big Data & Database projects such as Cassandra, Hadoop, Hbase, MongoDB

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Desirable:

• 3+Years proficient with some of the common developer tool sets such as Java, XML, Json, Rest, Shell, Perl, etc.

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