# Senior Level 1 Application Support / DBA Engineer

An established organization specializing in Data and Analytics services is seeking a highly skilled Senior Level 1 Application Support / DBA Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role offers a unique opportunity to support mission-critical enterprise environments, ensuring operational stability and resilience across multiple data centres. Perfect for professionals with a strong operational mindset and a passion for troubleshooting complex technical issues, this position plays a vital part in driving technological excellence and service reliability. Duties: Provide Level 1 and Level 2 application support across enterprise platforms and services Monitor application health, system availability, database performance, and infrastructure stability Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents within agreed SLAs Support Java-based enterprise applications in production environments Assist with application deployments, environment validations, and operational readiness activities Support PostgreSQL database environments, including replication monitoring and connectivity troubleshooting Collaborate with infrastructure services, including load balancers and monitoring platfo

- **Id**: 1113464
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/job-mail-senior-level-1-application-support-dba-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cape Town, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T13:43:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-27T14:18:18Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 49
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2911
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Analytics & BI Consulting, Data Engineering & Migration Services

## Company

- **Id**: 177436
- **Name**: PBT Group
- **Domain**: pbtgroup.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pbt-group>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Listed via**: jobmail.co.za

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 71
- **Open postings**: 21
- **Ghost share**: 0.381
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.762
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 13
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 25000
- **Max usd**: 61000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 1254

## Technologies

- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Keycloak** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **OpenShift** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 2
- **Flags**: repost
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **South Africa** — Iso: ZA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T13:43:12Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-22T23:13:17Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-05T13:52:23Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-05T20:13:48Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-27T14:18:18Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 12
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.35
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 48
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: seen:13, repost:2, urgency, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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