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≈ $28k – $72k per year (Estimated)
Location
In office (Nairobi)
Seniority
Senior · 5+ years exp

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 24, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 23, 2026.

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Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Britam Holdings Plc (Britam) is a diversified financial services group specializing in insurance, asset management, pensions, and property investment. Established in 1965 and publicly listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), the company maintains an extensive regional footprint across Eastern and Southern Africa, operating subsidiaries in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan, Mozambique, and Malawi. Its comprehensive portfolio spans life assurance, general and medical insurance, retirement planning, collective investment schemes (unit trusts), and commercial real estate assets. Serving individual retail clients, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and large corporate institutions, Britam delivers integrated risk management, long-term savings, and wealth creation solutions across the region.

Job Purpose:

Troubleshoots network performance issues, analyses network traffic, and provides capacity planning solutions.

Key responsibilities:

1. Creating and maintaining database standards and policies.

2. Supporting database design, creation, and testing activities.

3. Managing the database availability and performance, including incident and problem management.

4. Administering database objects to achieve optimum utilization.

5. Defining and implementing event triggers that will alert on potential database performance or integrity issues.

6. Performing database housekeeping, such as tuning, indexing, etc.

7. Monitoring usage, transaction volumes, response times, concurrency levels, etc.

8. Implementing security measures and frameworks, while ensuring compliance.

9. Identifying, reporting, and managing database security issues, audit trails, and forensics.

10. Designing database backup, archiving, and storage strategy.

11. Installing upgrades and patches to various apps.

12. Implement database security controls and best practices.

13. Manage database users, privileges, and role-based access control.

14. Perform quarterly access reviews and audit compliance activities.

15. Implement encryption, masking, whitelisting, and database activity monitoring.

16. Address audit findings and maintain regulatory compliance.

Job Purpose:

Troubleshoots network performance issues, analyses network traffic, and provides capacity planning solutions.

Key responsibilities:

1. Creating and maintaining database standards and policies.

2. Supporting database design, creation, and testing activities.

3. Managing the database availability and performance, including incident and problem management.

4. Administering database objects to achieve optimum utilization.

5. Defining and implementing event triggers that will alert on potential database performance or integrity issues.

6. Performing database housekeeping, such as tuning, indexing, etc.

7. Monitoring usage, transaction volumes, response times, concurrency levels, etc.

8. Implementing security measures and frameworks, while ensuring compliance.

9. Identifying, reporting, and managing database security issues, audit trails, and forensics.

10. Designing database backup, archiving, and storage strategy.

11. Installing upgrades and patches to various apps.

12. Implement database security controls and best practices.

13. Manage database users, privileges, and role-based access control.

14. Perform quarterly access reviews and audit compliance activities.

15. Implement encryption, masking, whitelisting, and database activity monitoring.

16. Address audit findings and maintain regulatory compliance.

Knowledge, experience and qualifications required:

1. Degree in science/Engineering/Computer Science.

2. Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) or Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in Database Administration (19c or later).

3. OCI certifications (e.g., OCI Foundations, Architect Associate) for cloud-focused roles.

4. ITIL intermediate.

5. Experience supporting high availability setups such as RAC, Data Guard, or ASM.

6. Experience with database migrations (on-premises to cloud, or between versions or platforms).

7. Experience working in 24/7 production support, including on-call rotations.

8. Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, or Azure) is an advantage.

9. 5+ years of experience.

Knowledge, experience and qualifications required:

1. Degree in science/Engineering/Computer Science.

2. Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) or Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in Database Administration (19c or later).

3. OCI certifications (e.g., OCI Foundations, Architect Associate) for cloud-focused roles.

4. ITIL intermediate.

5. Experience supporting high availability setups such as RAC, Data Guard, or ASM.

6. Experience with database migrations (on-premises to cloud, or between versions or platforms).

7. Experience working in 24/7 production support, including on-call rotations.

8. Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, or Azure) is an advantage.

9. 5+ years of experience.

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