This position involves researching, evaluating and recommending NoSQL database management products available in AWS, Azure and Google cloud platforms. The person will also have to do daily operational support of these databases as well as engage with developers to gain an understanding of their requirements and propose appropriate database management technologies.

Job Objectives

To research, evaluate and recommend NoSQL products:

• Evaluate and compare strengths and weaknesses of NoSQL products
• Produce documentation to be used in solution architecture decision making
• Rank ease of setup and management effort required for each product
• Rank monitoring and alerting capabilities for each product
• Determine best use cases for each product
• Conduct system performance testing for each product
• Perform daily database operational tasks ensuring databases are backed up and running optimally

Assist Development Teams in designing, modelling and validating NoSQL solutions for their applications:

• Liaise closely with development teams gathering their requirements.
• Propose appropriate NoSQL database management system
• Ensure cloud based solutions are built optimally, keeping maximum cost saving in mind

To ensure information security and regulatory compliance:

• Ensuring system security meets regulatory compliance
• Manage server security remediation activities which will include conducting vulnerability scans and patching 

To carry out database administration tasks ensuring data is available, protected and recoverable:

• Perform daily health checks for databases and resolve any issues identified
• Ensure database backups are scheduled and completing successfully
• Verify backups are valid by testing restore process regularly.
• Monitor databases so that capacity constraints can be mitigated by timeous provisioning of resources. 
• Close incidents within SLA
• Execute database changes according to change management process 
• Assist developers with any database issues

Requirements

• Grade 12 passed on higher grade
• 2+ years Managing all aspects of NoSQL database management systems from installation, configuration, backup management, and security
• 4-6 years Experience in administering one or more of the Relational Database Management Systems such as SQL SERVER , Oracle , MySQL and PostgreSQL 
• 2 years Experience working with services in AWS
• 2 years Exposure to one or more Apache Software Foundation Big Data; Database projects such as Cassandra, Hadoop, Hbase, MongoDB
• 2 years Proficient with some of the common developer tool sets such as Java, XML, JSON, REST, Shell, Perl and Python
• 4 years general understanding of database management concepts

Skills

• 2 years Proficient with installing, configuring, administering, using and benchmarking NoSQL solutions.
• 2 years Basic familiarity with Linux operating system
• 2 years Some experience engineering and/or administering NoSQL infrastructure
• 2 years Proficient with one or more Apache Software Foundation Big Data  Database projects such as Cassandra, Hadoop, Hbase, MongoDB
• 2 years Knowledge in designing, developing documenting use cases
• 2 years Proficiency with some of the common developer tool sets such as Java, XML, JSON, REST, Shell, Perl

Nice to haves (but not required)

• 6 months to 1 years Using database services in cloud providers Azure(Microsoft) and/or AWS(Amazon)
• 1 year Working with NoSQL databases
• 2-3 years DBA for other DBMS (DB2/Oracle/Informix)

Contact

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Posted on 24 Nov 15:40