Summary
Date Posted: Monday, July 22, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Database Administrator at Metropol Corporation Ltd .

  Job Responsibilities:
Database Performance:
• Monitor performance and manage parameters in order to provide fast response to queries.
• Use automated tools effectively to interpret the state of databases and extract areas of improvement.
• Take charge of writing and optimizing in-application database statements.
• Write and optimize queries to retrieve data from MongoDB.
• Implement a strategy for speedy data retrieval that combines relational and NoSQL datastores.
Planning:
• Map out the conceptual design for a planned database, considering both backend organization of data and front-end accessibility for clients.
• Refine the physical design to meet storage system requirements.
• Carry out capacity planning for the database.
Reporting:
• Implement a data warehousing strategy
• Write database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata)
• Generate daily, weekly and monthly reports as discussed with your supervisor.
• Communicate regularly with technical and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security.
Data Security:
• Control access permissions and privileges on production databases.
• Maintain the data recovery aspects of a database.
• Refine the logical design of the databases so that it can be translated into a specific data model.
• Maintain data standards, including adherence to any data protection legislation.

  Job Skills:
• Capable of configuring popular relational database systems and orchestrating clusters as necessary.
• Ability to plan resource requirements from high level specifications
• Familiar with tools that aid with profiling server resource usage and optimizing it.
• Proficient in using Git.
• Provable two years of experience working with NoSQL datastores (MongoDB preferred)
• Provable four years of experience working with PostgreSQL.
• Skilled at optimizing large complicated SQL statements.
• Knowledge of best practices when dealing with relational and NoSQL databases.

  Job Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Certification in any relational database system.
• Training in Mongo DB is an added advantage.
• Ability to write code in any contemporary language is an added advantage.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified
Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

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Job application procedure
  Applications should be sent their CVs to hr@metropol.co.ke
Email subject as the position they are applying for.

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