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If you enjoy maintaining resilient database environments and resolving complex data-platform issues, we'd love to hear from you.Key Responsibilities: \n- Install, configure, administer and maintain database platforms in development, test and production environments.\n- Monitor database availability, capacity and performance, and investigate and resolve database incidents.\n- Perform database backup, restore and recovery activities and support disaster-recovery planning and testing.\n- Manage database security, user access, permissions, patching and compliance with operational standards.\nOptimise queries, indexes and database configuration while maintaining technical documentation and supporting deployments.\nJob Experience & Skills Required / Ideal Candidate Profile:\nEducation\n- Degree, diploma or equivalent relevant qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Management or a related field is advantageous.\n- Relevant database certifications, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL or other platform-specific certifications, will be advantageous.\n- Additional training in cloud databases, performance tuning or database security will be advantageous.\n- Additional information security qualifications will be advantageous\nExperience\n- Typically 5+ years of experience in database administration or a closely related database engineering role.\n- Hands-on experience administering at least one enterprise database platform, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL or MySQL.\n- Experience with backup and recovery, performance tuning, access management, monitoring and production support.\n- Experience with high availability, replication, disaster recovery, cloud database services or database migration will be highly advantageous.\nSkills\n- Database installation, configuration, administration and monitoring.\n- SQL, query optimisation, indexing, execution plans and performance troubleshooting.\n- Backup and recovery, high availability, replication and disaster-recovery processes.\n- Database security, permissions, patching, scripting and operational documentation.\nLocation: Gauteng\nApply now!\nFor more exciting IT vacancies, please visit:\nwww.networkcontracting.co.za\nI also specialise in recruiting in the following fields:\n- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning\n- Software Development\n- Data Engineering & Analytics\nIf you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. 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