Job Title: Databases Administrator
Organisation: NCBA Bank Uganda Limited
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About the Company:
NCBA Bank Uganda Limited, is a commercial bank in Uganda. It is one of the commercial banks licensed by the Bank of Uganda, the country’s central bank and national banking regulator.
Job Summary: The Databases Administrator role is to design, plan, implement and support the databases in the organisation, and the related infrastructure. The Database administrator should be expert in operating databases in different platforms especially different operating systems, Cloud implementations, Storage platforms, core database platforms. The role should design databases for the required performance, capacity management considerations, and should be capable to align the performance database requirements with the costs in implementing and supporting the platforms.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Database Planning 40%
- Design, and implement organizational database systems to achieve performance and availability targets.
- Develop and implement Capacity management procedures to keep databases within capacity management thresholds
Database Management 30%
- Manage Databases availability, Service Recovery, to ensure projects, incidents; problems are addressed according to defined set of policies, processes, procedures and SLA’s.
Database Integration 10%
- Effectiveness of integration of database strategy / blueprint with the bank’s business direction
Database Security 10%
- Effectiveness of the databases security (policy, controls and infrastructure) with regard to protection against exposure to and impact of risks associated with data loss, corruption and/or unauthorized access
Database Setup 10%
- Plans, Designs and implements Database projects in accordance with Bank’s requirements and Monitor Capacity/Performance of the group databases to ensure optimum efficiency
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Academic:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
Professional:
- ITIL, OCA, OCP, OCM, other relevant professional qualifications in IT field would be an added advantage
- Project Management certification and experience is preferred e.g. PRINCE2, PMP
Desired work experience:
- Three years’ experience in databases and storage support on medium to large
- Working experience in a bank or other financial services organization would be added advantage
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join NCBA Bank are strongly encouraged to apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 16th January 2025
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