Brief description
The main purpose of this position is to administer, maintain, install, and support the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) database management systems, including daily maintenance, backups, performance monitoring, and user support.
Detailed description
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas :
- Perform routine maintenance, monitor database health and manage database performance.
- Securely install and administer the database to enhance the resilience, redundancy and continuity thereof.
- Schedule database backups and design recovery plans and procedures.
- Respond to unplanned system outages by investigating, troubleshooting and remediating.
- Maintain user access as per the User Access Management Policy.
- Provide first-level database support to end users in all departments, including proactive preventative maintenance and upgrades of the database management system.
- Create and maintain database documentation, including operational procedures and processes.
- Stay abreast of industry database developments and best practices and apply these where relevant.
- Provide technical input (technical diagrams, technical procedures and work instructions) on the development of knowledge base articles to preserve technical knowledge.
- Produce monthly database reports in line with business requirements.
- Establish and maintain stakeholder relationships with vendors to ensure the efficient running of the database management systems.
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