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About the role
AppZone is a response to the growing need in emerging markets for financial services accessibility to the masses. The company was formed with a genuine belief in Africa’s latent ability to support the home grown production and delivery of world class IT Software for the enhancement of key sectors of the budding economy.
We are seeking a Senior Engineering Specialist, Database Administration to provide sound, professional database advice, administration and proactive maintenance of the company data and database environments.
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Responsibilities
- Provide sound, professional database advice, administration and proactive maintenance of the company data and database environments.
- Support the process for database architecture, installation, configuration, and management, while ensuring prompt and thorough backup, recovery, replication, and high availability.
- Perform optimization, including the writing of query, indexing, and optimization techniques to ensure efficient data retrieval and manipulation.
- Carry out database design, data modeling, and normalization to ensure scalable and performant database structures.
- Monitor, analyze, and optimize database performance, troubleshoot issues, and resolve problems related to query performance, indexing, and resource utilization.
- Set up procedures to monitor all database environments and ensure a minimum of 99.9% uptime.
- Work with the team to resolve issues and escalate extreme cases to the appropriate OEMs.
- Recommend new database and data architecture which would yield cost saving and enable increased growth of the revenue of the organization.
- Ensure periodic security checks on the database systems to prevent fraud and expose any compromise attempt noticed on the database.
- Ensure and test performance level on the databases and ensure compliance with data protection regulations and industry best practices.
- Plan Business Continuity operations and Disaster Recovery Operations to meet the required RTO and RPO as defined by the organization.
- Manage and maintain databases, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
- Design and implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery plans, and optimize server databases for efficiency and scalability.
- Troubleshoot database issues and implement long-term solutions; maintain database documentation, procedures, and governance policies.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve database architecture and optimize queries.
- Monitor disk usage, system performance, and capacity planning; update and maintain repositories with database-related code and scripts.
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