DBA Specialist (Database Administrator Specialist)
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Job Location:
Johannesburg - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Specialist
REQ 142830 - Keabetswe Modise
Closing Date: 14 November 2025
Job Family
Information Technology
Career Stream
IT Operations
Leadership Pipeline
Manage Self: Professional
Job Purpose
To ensure the installation; design; configuration; upgrade; administration; monitoring and maintenance of databases and associated software products; In support of operational systems and the development environment. To ensure the integrity; reliability; efficiency and security of enterprises data.
Job Responsibilities
- Build effective client relations by participating in project planning facilitation and project reporting to clients stakeholders and vendors. Address client issues by providing technical support for all databases including high-level support and escalated calls.
- Build and maintain stakeholder relationships.
- Ensure availability by implementing standards for developing and maintaining preventative maintenance routines. Ensure client needs are understood and met through regular monitoring of database resources.
- Build client relationships by providing first line support standby and acting within mandate.
- Ensure stakeholders are informed of any database related changes. Provide client service as defined in the Service Catalogue.
- Comply with risks standards. Alert database administrators of events that will potentially generate performance or integrity issues with the database.
- Communicate and ensure that all staff are instructed in the use of new and/or enhanced procedures and scripts for all aspects of database administration that were established and/or created.
- Prove recovery processors are successful.
- Optimise database performance and resource usage.
- Participate in technical review forums.
- Participate in design development and management of large complex databases management systems used throughout the organisation.
- Work with integration of databases including synchronisation between disparate databases integration maintenance/ conversion capacity planning issues and new applications.
- Transfer and/or share data and assume responsibility for the design coding documentation and implementation of database related scripts and queries.
- Assist with the project management of the implementation of database.
- Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in Nedbank culture building initiatives business strategy and CSI.
- Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise ensuring personal and professional growth.
- Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and values leading by example.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes systems and policies.
- Ensure work is completed to agreed timelines.
- Ensure that all financial recoveries are captured.
- Ensure infrastructure designs are optimised for financial savings. Provide advice on improved performance.
- Ensure information is provided correctly to stakeholders by maintaining knowledge sharing knowledge with team.
- Provide technical mentoring to junior staff by actively participate in job shadowing.
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
Preferred Qualification
- Honours Degree / BSC Information Tech
Essential Certifications
- DB Certification
Minimum Experience Level
- 8 years plus exposure to IT environment with minimum of 5 years DBA
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Principles of project management
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Business writing skills
- Information Technology concepts
- Governance risk and controls
- Specific technology of relevant to domain
- Data base Administration (DBA) Principles and Admin Concepts
- Relational database
- Database Restore and Recoveries
Behavioural Competencies
- Applied Learning
- Collaborating
- Customer Focus
- Initiating Action
- Work Standards
- Managing Work
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Databases
- IT Experience
- Presentation Skills
- Information Management
- SQL
- Relational Databases
- Microsoft SQL Server
- LMS
- Postgresql
- Database Administration
- Oracle
- DynamoDB
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