South African Reserve Bank IT / Telecom Jobs in Pretoria
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The main purpose of this position is to administer, maintain, install and support the database management systems for the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).
Detailed description
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:
- Respond to unplanned system outages by investigating, troubleshooting and remediating.
- Maintain user access as per the User Access Management Policy.
- Securely install and administer the database to enhance the resilience, redundancy and continuity thereof.
- Provide first-level database support to end users in all departments, including proactive preventative maintenance and upgrades of the database management system.
- Schedule database backup and design recovery plans and procedures.
- 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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Qualifications
Job requirements
To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:
- a minimum of a National Diploma in Information Technology (IT) (NQF 6) or an equivalent qualification;
- database administrator certification; and
- 2-5 years of database-related experience.
Additional requirements include:
- database administration knowledge and skill;
- industry, organisational and business awareness knowledge and skill;
- quality assurance knowledge and skill;
- continual improvement knowledge and skill;
- operations knowledge and skill;
- IT governance knowledge;
- IT reporting skills;
- systems integration knowledge and skill;
- systems support knowledge and skill;
- capacity and availability management knowledge and skill;
- conceptual thinking;
- verbal and written communication skills;
- analytical and problem-solving skills;
- planning and organisational skills;
- attention to detail;
- a drive for results;
- service and stakeholder focus;
- teamwork skills;
- learning focus; and
- judgement.
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