# Senior Database Administrator

Introduction To provide specialist administration, engineering and operational ownership for enterprise database platforms across on-premises, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. The role ensures database services meet agreed availability, resilience, security, performance and recovery requirements, while enabling safe change, modernisation, automation and cost-effective growth. The Senior DBA acts as an escalation point and trusted advisors to application, infrastructure, security, architecture and business stakeholders. Duties & Responsibilities Service reliability and BAU operations · Administer, monitor and support production and non-production database services against agreed SLAs and operational controls. · Perform installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, backups, restores, integrity checks, capacity management and lifecycle maintenance. · Diagnose and recover routine and complex database availability, integrity, access and performance issues; escalate high-risk or highly complex incidents and vendor engagement to the Technical Lead - Database Platforms. · Maintain accurate platform inventories, support documentation, runbooks, standards and known-error records.

- **Id**: 3922414
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/jse-senior-database-administrator>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sandton, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T14:01:03Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T14:01:03Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8439
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- **Benefits**: Continuous learning
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4516539
- **Name**: JSE
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/jse-3>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure SQL Database** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **ITIL** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **MS SQL** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **Windows Server** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T15:58:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:02:46Z

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