Client Details:
This client looks for high achievers who wish to build a career at a top international IT company. Their typical applicant should not just be looking for a job, but should be seeking a career filled with opportunity, should enjoy the challenge of working towards stretch goals; and be willing to take every chance to grow on a technical and personal level. Join an elite team.
Role Responsibilities:
- Compiling SOP’s for database health checks and automating checks where possible.
- Ensuring monitoring is configured on all application components through supported APM tool sets (Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Cloudwatch etc.).
- Maintaining documentation detailing monitoring configured on all databases.
- Ensuring that integration between monitoring tool sets and the 24/7 ISO Monitoring Centre is in place to ensure critical alarms are monitored after hours.
- Maintaining documentation detailing alarms configured on all databases.
- Resolving service requests and incidents handed over from Level 1 and 2 through the Remedy ticketing system.
- Where necessary, engage with database vendors to seek resolution where applicable.
- Ensuring configuration items (CI’s) for database components are configured on the Remedy Ticketing System.
- Providing support for deployments where intervention is required at database level.
- Ensuring that problem tickets are opened and tracked on Jira for any recurring incidents; incidents where there is no known permanent solution or incidents with outstanding actions related to operational improvements.
- Conducting regular reviews of problem tickets.
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant security policies.
- Providing insight and recommendations into database performance and capacity based on observed trends and future demand.
- Reviewing and improving/optimising database performance.
- SQL optimisation for inefficient queries.
- Enterprise database architecture review.
- Implementing database best practices.
- Implementing archiving and backup strategies.
- Compilation and maintenance of Technical Recovery Plans to be enacted in the event that DR failover needs to be invoked.
- Participating in monthly and quarterly review meetings.
- Providing support to transition new services into production and ensuring mandated operational controls are implemented prior to a service going live.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Relevant tertiary education.
Relevant Skills / Experience:
- Experience with database design, implementation, performance tuning and capacity planning.
- Experience with Open Source/Linux development and production environments.
- Experience designing and implementing database replication strategies.
- Strong analytical, communication and troubleshooting skills.
- Able to work under pressure and multi-task.
Work Location / Type:
- Hybrid.
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Desired Skills:
- MariaDB
- MySQL
- Linux