Company Overview

Britam is a leading diversified financial services group, listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The group has interests across the Eastern and Southern Africa region, with operations in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan, Mozambique and Malawi. The group offers a wide range of financial products and services in Insurance, Asset management, Ban...

Job Purpose

Troubleshoots network performance issues, analyses network traffic, and provides capacity planning solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining database standards and policies.
• Supporting database design, creation, and testing activities.
• Managing the database availability and performance, including incident and problem management.
• Administering database objects to achieve optimum utilization.
• Defining and implementing event triggers that will alert on potential database performance or integrity issues.
• Performing database housekeeping, such as tuning, indexing, etc.
• Monitoring usage, transaction volumes, response times, concurrency levels, etc.
• Implementing security measures and frameworks, while ensuring compliance.
• Identifying, reporting, and managing database security issues, audit trails, and forensics.
• Designing database backup, archiving, and storage strategy.
• Installing upgrades and patches to various apps.
• Implement database security controls and best practices.
• Manage database users, privileges, and role-based access control.
• Perform quarterly access reviews and audit compliance activities.
• Implement encryption, masking, whitelisting, and database activity monitoring.
• Address audit findings and maintain regulatory compliance.

Knowledge, Experience and Qualifications Required

• Degree in science/Engineering/Computer Science.
• Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) or Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in Database Administration (19c or later).
• OCI certifications (e.g., OCI Foundations, Architect Associate) for cloud-focused roles.
• ITIL intermediate.
• Experience supporting high availability setups such as RAC, Data Guard, or ASM.
• Experience with database migrations (on-premises to cloud, or between versions or platforms).
• Experience working in 24/7 production support, including on-call rotations.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, or Azure) is an advantage.
• 5+ years of experience.

• Creating and maintaining database standards and policies.
• Supporting database design, creation, and testing activities.
• Managing the database availability and performance, including incident and problem management.
• Administering database objects to achieve optimum utilization.
• Defining and implementing event triggers that will alert on potential database performance or integrity issues.
• Performing database housekeeping, such as tuning, indexing, etc.
• Monitoring usage, transaction volumes, response times, concurrency levels, etc.
• Implementing security measures and frameworks, while ensuring compliance.
• Identifying, reporting, and managing database security issues, audit trails, and forensics.
• Designing database backup, archiving, and storage strategy.
• Installing upgrades and patches to various apps.
• Implement database security controls and best practices.
• Manage database users, privileges, and role-based access control.
• Perform quarterly access reviews and audit compliance activities.
• Implement encryption, masking, whitelisting, and database activity monitoring.
• Address audit findings and maintain regulatory compliance.

• database standards and policies
• database design, creation, and testing
• database availability and performance management
• incident and problem management
• database object administration
• event triggers
• database housekeeping
• tuning
• indexing
• usage monitoring
• transaction volume monitoring
• response time monitoring
• concurrency level monitoring
• security measures and frameworks
• compliance
• database security issues
• audit trails
• forensics
• database backup, archiving, and storage strategy
• upgrades and patches installation
• database security controls
• best practices
• database users, privileges, and role-based access control management
• access reviews
• audit compliance
• encryption
• masking
• whitelisting
• database activity monitoring
• audit findings management
• regulatory compliance
• Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
• Database Administration (19c or later)
• OCI certifications
• OCI Foundations
• Architect Associate
• ITIL intermediate
• high availability setups
• RAC
• Data Guard
• ASM
• database migrations
• on-premises to cloud migration
• cloud platforms
• OCI
• AWS
• Azure

• Degree in science/Engineering/Computer Science
• Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) or Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in Database Administration (19c or later)
• OCI certifications (e.g., OCI Foundations, Architect Associate) for cloud-focused roles
• ITIL intermediate
• Experience supporting high availability setups such as RAC, Data Guard, or ASM
• Experience with database migrations (on-premises to cloud, or between versions or platforms)
• Experience working in 24/7 production support, including on-call rotations
• Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, or Azure) is an advantage