Database Administrator at Britam

by Britam Holdings Plc

in Computer Science, ICT
Full Time
Nairobi, Kenya
October 23, 2026

Job Overview

  • Date Posted
    October 23, 2026
  • Location
    Nairobi, Kenya
  • Expiration date
    December 22, 2026
  • Experience
    1 Year
  • Gender
    Both
  • Qualification
    Bachelor Degree

Job Description

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.

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