Oracle Database Administrator

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Are you looking for an employer who promotes individual excellence and mutual respect in a team-driven culture with a key focus on social empowerment? The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, “The Kingdom Bank” is the place for those looking to new horizons.

We are looking for dynamic, creative and self-oriented professionals to fill the position of:
Oracle Database Administrator 
Job Summary:
Reporting to Head Database Administration, Information & Communication Technology Department, The role holder will be responsible for end-to-end and proactive database design, administration, performance monitoring and management of all databases, peripheral infrastructure, and general ICT systems through setting up of optimal performance bench marks, use of modern and appropriate tools coupled with best practices. The role holder will also ensure high systems availability and improvements to meet business growth demands, ensure timely intervention by key stake holders, improved performance, enhanced system security, business continuity and excellence in service delivery.
Main Duties:
  • Team up with applications support, development and infrastructure team in the development, deployment, management of application and infrastructure, and proactively monitor system health in order to proactively identify weaknesses and manage them. 
  • Perform tasks such as system design, capacity planning, maintenance, trouble shooting, and change control activities.
  • End to end system performance management to guarantee adequate response to end users and proactive monitoring of production databases to ensure application uptime
  • Creating and maintaining database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary and maintain all technical documentation relating to database management
  • Administration and Management of a high availability enterprise architecture.
  • Ensuring a high database security regime by establishing system access needs of users; controlling database access through  permissions and privileges and proactively monitoring and reviewing user access using the Audit and Database Vault
Job specification: 
The incumbent will be required to possess the following qualifications, attributes and skills:
  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science.
  • Oracle RDBMS 10g, 11g OCP certification
  • Proficiency and hands on experience in SQL and PL/SQL
  • Proven Hands on experience working with Unix environments
  • 3 years working experience in an IT enterprise environment
  • Knowledge of Oracle Enterprise Manager
  • Proven experience in managing RAC, Dataguard, ASM for mission critical databases
  • Familiarity with ICT management frameworks such as ITIL, COBIT, etc.
  • 40 years or below
Interested candidates meeting the above criteria should forward an application enclosing detailed Curriculum Vitae accompanied by copies of certificates and indicating the current remuneration to the address shown below by 30th July 2014.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.    
Only the short listed candidates will be contacted.                                                                                                                                      
Please quote this reference on your application and on the envelope: DBA/7/HRD/2014
The Director
Human Resources Division
Co-operative Bank of Kenya Ltd.
P.O. Box 48231-00100
NAIROBI

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