Database Administrator (Database Support and Maintenance) Contract | On-site - Pretoria

Recruiter:

Datafin IT Recruitment

Job Ref:

901480

Date posted:

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Location:

Pretoria, South Africa

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:
ENVIRONMENT: Our client is a trusted ICT and digital transformation partner with a strong footprint across South Africa. They deliver end-to-end advisory, innovative technology solutions, managed services, and people solutions that drive measurable business impact, scale, and regulatory compliance. They are seeking a Database Administrator Database Administrator to manage Oracle databases (11g\/12c\/19c) on UNIX (Solaris) through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems. Configure and maintain database servers, including monitoring of system health and performance. DUTIES: • Administration : Manage Oracle databases (11g\/12c\/19c) on UNIX (Solaris) through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems. Configure and maintain database servers, including monitoring of system health and performance. • Performance : High levels of performance tuning, optimization, database partitioning and capacity planning; • Availability: Ensure Dev, Staging and Production environments are functioning optimally; • Security: Enforce security rules as defined by Oracle best practice, standard and Department security policies. • Data Analysis : Apply data modelling techniques to ensure development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations; • Troubleshooting : Independently analyse, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end. Able to take ownership of Oracle service request from problem to resolution; • Backup and Recovery : High level skills of different backup and recovery and disaster recovery scenarios; • Automatio n: Able to write bash scripts for process automation to track issues, and document changes; • Middleware\/application server Administration : from WebLogic 14 and WildFly 21; • Oracle Enterprise Manager – OMS and Agents administration, configuration and monitoring; and • Oracle High Availability solutions : RAC and Data Guard setup and administration. REQUIREMENTS: • Oracle 10g\/12c Certification; • • Minimum of 5 Years’ experience on Oracle Database administration; and • Minimum of 2 years’ experience on Oracle Middleware.

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