Job Description
We currently have an exciting career opportunity for a Database Administrator within Jubilee Life Insurance
Limited. The position holder will report to the Senior Manager – Long Term Applications and will be based at our
Head Office in Nairobi.
Role Purpose
The role holder will be responsible for recommending, implementing, and monitoring system database, best practice, and
procedures to manage company’s data and information, administer and provide database support for all application
throughout the entire software life cycle processes. The incumbent will also provide DBA support for production,
development, test DB environments and resolve DB performance issues. Maintain end-to-end responsibilities for the Oracle
database in all three environments.
Main Responsibilities
1. Review and design database structures, Oracle RMA, Oracle RAC to support business requirements including
logical and physical database modeling.
2. Responsible for improvement and maintenance of the databases to include rollout, optimization, tuning and
upgrades of database technology platforms.
3. Install, configure, and maintain database instances, creation of various database objects, create userswith
appropriate roles and levels of security.
4. Manage and support high performance, highly available and mission critical database platforms for Insurance core
applications and other systems.
5. Implement database security policies that are consistent with laid security guidelines.
6. Implement and perform database backup and recovery strategies that meet recovery and availability
requirements.
7. Implement best practices and incorporate them in DBA procedures.
8. Manage and support Enterprise Data warehouse including the development of reports from the datawarehouse
platform.
9. Works with various teams to ensure that the associated hardware resources are allocated to the databasesand to
ensure high availability and optimum performance.
10. Management of project implementation tasks of (BI, Audit Vault, Oracle ERP, Database firewall etc.) toensure a
well-documented, tracked, seamless and timely implementation.
Functional Skills
1. Experience in implementation & Development of Oracle.
2. Knowledge and experience with installation, configuration, backup, recovery, and monitoring of Oracle10g, and
11g databases.
3. Working knowledge and experience with databases, Oracle Development, and application technologies.
Qualifications
1. Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science or other computer related field from a recognized University
2. 3+ years of experience with Oracle DBA development
3. 3+ years of experience with test and production environments
4. Certification: OCP /MCSD
Relevant Experience
Minimum of 4 years’ work experience in Oracle DBA development, databases security, hardware, and system software.