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Database Administrator
britam/ke
Job at a glance
- Employer
- britam/ke
- Position
- Database Administrator
- Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Degree in Science/Engineering/CS
- Salary
- Not stated in the advert
- Application deadline
- Open until filled (listed until 10 November 2026)
- Posted on VacancyKE
- 24 October 2026
VacancyKE summary
Britam is hiring a Database Administrator in Nairobi to manage database performance, security, and availability. You will handle incident management, implement cloud strategies, and ensure regulatory compliance for critical systems.
What stands out about this opportunity
- Requires specific Oracle and OCI certifications
- Involves 24/7 production support and on-call duties
- Focuses on both traditional DBA tasks and cloud security
Key responsibilities
- Maintain database standards, policies, and object utilization
- Manage availability, performance, incidents, and problem resolution
- Implement event triggers for integrity and performance alerts
- Perform tuning, indexing, and monitoring of transaction volumes
- Design backup, archiving, and storage strategies
- Install upgrades, patches, and implement security controls
- Manage users, privileges, and role-based access control
- Conduct quarterly access reviews and address audit findings
Who should apply?
An experienced Oracle Database Administrator with strong security and cloud migration skills, comfortable working in a 24/7 production environment.
Key requirements
- OCA or OCP certified (19c+)
- ITIL Intermediate certified
- 5+ years experience
- High availability setup expertise
- Database migration experience
- 24/7 support readiness
Nice to have
- Exposure to cloud platforms like AWS or Azure
How to apply
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Original employer advertisement
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The employer’s advert
Job Purpose:
Troubleshoots network performance issues, analyses network traffic, and provides capacity planning solutions.
Key responsibilities:
1. Creating and maintaining database standards and policies.
2. Supporting database design, creation, and testing activities.
3. Managing the database availability and performance, including incident and problem management.
4. Administering database objects to achieve optimum utilization.
5. Defining and implementing event triggers that will alert on potential database performance or integrity issues.
6. Performing database housekeeping, such as tuning, indexing, etc.
7. Monitoring usage, transaction volumes, response times, concurrency levels, etc.
8. Implementing security measures and frameworks, while ensuring compliance.
9. Identifying, reporting, and managing database security issues, audit trails, and forensics.
10. Designing database backup, archiving, and storage strategy.
11. Installing upgrades and patches to various apps.
12. Implement database security controls and best practices.
13. Manage database users, privileges, and role-based access control.
14. Perform quarterly access reviews and audit compliance activities.
15. Implement encryption, masking, whitelisting, and database activity monitoring.
16. Address audit findings and maintain regulatory compliance.
Knowledge, experience and qualifications required:
1. Degree in science/Engineering/Computer Science.
2. Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) or Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in Database Administration (19c or later).
3. OCI certifications (e.g., OCI Foundations, Architect Associate) for cloud-focused roles.
4. ITIL intermediate.
5. Experience supporting high availability setups such as RAC, Data Guard, or ASM.
6. Experience with database migrations (on-premises to cloud, or between versions or platforms).
7. Experience working in 24/7 production support, including on-call rotations.
8. Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, or Azure) is an advantage.
9. 5+ years of experience.
Troubleshoots network performance issues, analyses network traffic, and provides capacity planning solutions.
Key responsibilities:
1. Creating and maintaining database standards and policies.
2. Supporting database design, creation, and testing activities.
3. Managing the database availability and performance, including incident and problem management.
4. Administering database objects to achieve optimum utilization.
5. Defining and implementing event triggers that will alert on potential database performance or integrity issues.
6. Performing database housekeeping, such as tuning, indexing, etc.
7. Monitoring usage, transaction volumes, response times, concurrency levels, etc.
8. Implementing security measures and frameworks, while ensuring compliance.
9. Identifying, reporting, and managing database security issues, audit trails, and forensics.
10. Designing database backup, archiving, and storage strategy.
11. Installing upgrades and patches to various apps.
12. Implement database security controls and best practices.
13. Manage database users, privileges, and role-based access control.
14. Perform quarterly access reviews and audit compliance activities.
15. Implement encryption, masking, whitelisting, and database activity monitoring.
16. Address audit findings and maintain regulatory compliance.
Knowledge, experience and qualifications required:
1. Degree in science/Engineering/Computer Science.
2. Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) or Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in Database Administration (19c or later).
3. OCI certifications (e.g., OCI Foundations, Architect Associate) for cloud-focused roles.
4. ITIL intermediate.
5. Experience supporting high availability setups such as RAC, Data Guard, or ASM.
6. Experience with database migrations (on-premises to cloud, or between versions or platforms).
7. Experience working in 24/7 production support, including on-call rotations.
8. Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, or Azure) is an advantage.
9. 5+ years of experience.