Senior Database Administrator

Duties & Responsibilities: - Installation, configuration and upgrade of DBMS - Implement database security policies, data encryption, account management and access control - Ensure that database activities are monitored, to detect (and prevent) unauthorized activities and/or data breaches - Design, develop, and implement databases in collaboration with development team - Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HADR) - Database risk and security management - Change control between environments - Perform regular backups of data and recovery and ensure data integrity. - Enforce standards, policies & procedures relating to data - Perform requests for the import and export of data - Check & test performance, indexes and best practice - Monitor and optimize database performance, tuning, storage management and allocating resources - Update data base dictionary documentation - Analyse, design and integrate data from all systems - Plan, analyse and design involvement in all data conversions - Provide 3rd line support where needed - Plan, analyse, design & test adhoc project initiatives - Interact with project owners and management, drive critical project and product trade-off decisions - Monitor Service Desk queue and manage incidents, requests and problems experienced with systems, within agreed SLA - Conduct research and make recommendations on DB products, services, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts - Monitor DB growth and research alternative archiving and storage solutions - Provide budgeting needs to Management Formal Education: - IT related degree/diploma - Microsoft Certification (MCSA Database Development & Administration) Experience: - IT experience: 7 years - DBA: 3-5 years - Project Management 2 years (advantage) - Insurance industry experience: 2 3 years (advantage) - Cloud computing with SQL Server: 2-3 years (advantage)