Database Administrator

• Provide sound, professional database advice, administration and proactive maintenance of the company data and database environments.
  
• Support the process for database architecture, installation, configuration, and management, while ensuring prompt and thorough backup, recovery, replication, and high availability.
  
• Perform optimization, including the writing of query, indexing, and optimization techniques to ensure efficient data retrieval and manipulation.
  
• Carry out database design, data modeling, and normalization to ensure scalable and performant database structures.
  
• Monitor, analyze, and optimize database performance, troubleshoot issues, and resolve problems related to query performance, indexing, and resource utilization.
  
• Set up procedures to monitor all database environments and ensure a minimum of 99.9% uptime.
  
• Work with the team to resolve issues and escalate extreme cases to the appropriate OEMs.
  
• Recommend new database and data architecture which would yield cost saving and enable increased growth of the revenue of the organization.
  
• Ensure periodic security checks on the database systems to prevent fraud and expose any compromise attempt noticed on the database.
  
• Ensure and test performance level on the databases and ensure compliance with data protection regulations and industry best practices.
  
• Plan Business Continuity operations and Disaster Recovery Operations to meet the required RTO and RPO as defined by the organization.
  
• Manage and maintain databases, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
  
• Design and implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery plans, and optimize server databases for efficiency and scalability.
  
• Troubleshoot database issues and implement long-term solutions; maintain database documentation, procedures, and governance policies.
  
• Collaborate with development teams to improve database architecture and optimize queries.
  
• Monitor disk usage, system performance, and capacity planning; update and maintain repositories with database-related code and scripts.
  

Qore provides the rare opportunity to make history in the financial space for Africa by Africans, while working with the smartest, brightest & coolest minds in Africa. Our people & culture team continuously thinks of innovative ways to improve employee experience and some of the other benefits of working with Qore includes:

• Very competitive and rewarding pay
  
• Flexible work option (i.e., Remote work)
  
• Paid Lunch for onsite work
  
• Lifelong Learnings