# Senior Database Administrator (MySQL, PostgreSQL) - Takealot

Takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to join the Engineering & Product team based in Cape Town, South Africa. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! Think you've been challenged before? Think again! Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do. Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time. Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Mr D, and TFS. We like to promote from within: Here's your chance. Purpose of Role You will leverage your knowledge of operating systems, networking, and databases to deploy, operate, support, and manage databases that support the applications delivering Takealot features. You will contribute to resolving operational issues, query improvements, and administrative tasks to provide a stable platform resilient to failures. You will also contribute to the Database team roadmap, investigating potential new technologies and designing process improvemen

- **Id**: 1002213
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/takealot-group-senior-database-administrator-mysql-postgresql-takealot>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **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**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-17T12:08:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-17
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T09:16:01Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-06T09:16:01Z
- **Days open**: 49
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6692
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: E-commerce Platforms, Marketplaces

## Company

- **Id**: 685918
- **Name**: Takealot Group
- **Domain**: takealotgroup.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/takealotgroup>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.2
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 42
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 34000
- **Max usd**: 63000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 13

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Oracle** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **Slack** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 49

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-17T13:08:13Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-06T09:16:01Z

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