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Website: https://www.airtel.co.rw/

Airtel Rwanda: JOB DESCRIPTION

(Deliverables, Decision level, Demonstrate & Dimensions)

Job Title: Database Administrator

Proposed Level:

Department: IT

Location: Airtel Rwanda HQ.

Reporting to: IT Infrastructure Manager

Date:

Purpose of the Job (Brief)

The Database Administrator will be managing all the company databases to ensure availability and efficiency

Deliverables (Maximum 5-6 key responsibilities)

This section requires the top five accountabilities that role is to deliver own. Written in outcome language, this is not a listing of tasks but a grouping of tasks to determine outcomes required from the tasks.

Expected Key Results

Activities (Detailed KPIs)

Efficiency of databases.
  • Monitoring the database health and performance.
  • Checking alerts and acting accordingly.
  • Performing routine backups and ensuring backup integrity.
  • Analyzing query performance and optimizing slow queries.
  • Handling replication issues and ensuring data consistency.
  • Creating and managing indexes to improve performance.
  • Ensuring data integrity and consistency during backup and restore operations.

Availability of database
  • Checking for database uptime and availability
  • Monitoring system resource usage and acting accordingly
  • Handling basic connectivity issues.
  • Investigating and resolving complex performance issues.
  • Performing point-in-time recovery and testing recovery procedures.

Planning and implementation of database related projects
  • Designing and modifying database schemas.
  • Implementing normalization and denormalization techniques.

Decision level

This section requires an overview of the decisions taken by the role holder and who actually takes accountability for the decisions. It is a description of primary versus shared responsibility or where one only contributes to decisions.

Prime:

Shared:

Contributory: Makes a major contribution to a decision

Demonstrate (Key competencies)

This section requires an overview of the skills, education and experience required to do the job at a satisfactory level. It is not a list of the job holder’s qualification.

Skills critical to the role:

  • Excellent communication, presentation and organizational skills
  • Working in a team environment

Educational Level:

Must have:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or related Information Communication Technology related disciplines.

Working Experience:

Must have:

  • At least 3 years of experience in database administration
  • Sound Knowledge of any database from oracle, DB2, Postgres databases.
  • Knowledge of Linux and windows operating systems
  • Ready to join within 30 days

Dimensions

Impact of position:

Impact on customers (Please select one of the options below):

i) Type of customers

Mainly Internal X Mainly External Internal & External

No. of Subordinates :

Approvals

Job Holder’s signature

Line Manager’s signature

Please submit your updated curriculum vitae – CV on recruitment@rw.airtel.com before 15th October 2024.

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