Database Administrator
Ozow
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- An IT diploma or degree
- At least 3+ years work-related experience
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server
- Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Experience with AWS RDS
- DBA experience working with Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL/MySQL hosted on AWS RDS
- Experience working with a database performance analyser tool (e.g. Solarwinds DPA)
- Experience identifying and fine-tuning queries and indexes to optimize database performance
- Experience managing database backups and restoration in AWS
- Experience with disaster recovery testing and planning
- Experience managing minor and major updates to RDS instances
- Experience with database archiving strategies and implementing them.
- AWS DMS (advantageous).
- DynamoDB experience (advantageous).
- Data migration between database technologies (e.g. from MS SQL Server to PostgreSQL) (advantageous).
- Healthy breakfast, lunches and snacks (Cape Town)
- Healthy lunches and snacks (Johannesburg)
- Monthly socials (Cape Town and Johannesburg)
- On-site Barista (Cape Town and Johannesburg)
- Ozow Library (Cape Town)
- Ozow Playroom (Cape Town)
- Birthday Leave
- Medical aid subsidy (permanent staff)
- Group Risk Insurance (permanent staff)
- Paid annual leave
- Employee Health and Wellness Assistance
- Gym / Fitness sessions
- Learning and Development opportunities
- Mentorship programme
- Community initiatives
- Quarterly team retreats and annual company retreats
- Employee gifting
- Access to cutting edge technology