Jobs at Sanlam – Database Administrator

• Interface with multiple business users across the organization.
• Assist with up skilling team members by assisting Jnr staff, system analysts, and application developers and showcasing new and interesting technologies/methodologies
• Take responsibility for capacity management and performance tuning of a database
• Responsible for supporting the business by ensuring that all SQL environments are running optimally
• Work closely with the development teams – assist with any queries (performance tuning, best practices, troubleshoot logic issues etc)
• Review team members’ code and advise on enhancements
• Security and risk management of the SQL estate

Job Requirements:

• Extensive knowledge of SSRS, SSAS, T-SQL and SSIS.
• Must have solid T-SQL development skills.
• Matric
• A solid understanding of how the SQL engine works
• SQL SSAS deployment, security models and design knowledge are advantageous
• Solid understanding of performance tuning principles within SQL, SSAS, SSRS.

Qualification & Experience:

• Minimum 10 years extensive working experience in a SQL DBA role
• Relevant tertiary qualifications
• Must have experience in designing and building large/high volume transactional and analytical Databases
• Must have 2-3 years team lead/management experience, leading SQL DBAs
• Must have SQL performance tuning experience on large systems
• Must have work experience with SQL security and a very good understanding on how to design and implement security roles for enterprise type databases
• SQL High availability experience is critical. 5+ years of experience on SQL HA.