Ministry of Education and Sports Senior Database Administrator Jobs in Uganda

Ministry of Education and Sports Senior Database Administrator Jobs in Uganda

Purpose of the Job

To maintain the availability, performance, security, and integrity of the EMIS database systems

Key Duties and Responsibilities

The main responsibilities and duties of the Senior
Database Administrator are:

To Write Database documents, including data
standard procedures and definitions for the data
dictionary (‘Metadata’);

To Develop and apply procedures relating to
database and application security;

To develop a backup and recovery plan;

To monitor space and resource utilization and
inform the project and technical managers in time, in case of the need for additional resources;

To monitor performance of the database
including transactional processing and response times;

To provide data migration services between
databases in staging, production, and development environments;

To plan and oversee database software and patch
upgrades;

To implement a database security plan, and
implement and monitor database security in line
with the EMIS;

To Review and troubleshoot database error logs
and system logs affecting the database;

Any other duties as may be assigned from time
to time;

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Applicants should be Ugandans holding an
Honors Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology ; or Information Science / Systems; or Computer Science; or Software Engineering from a recognized University/Institution;

A Post Graduate qualifi cation in the above
professional fi eld will be an added advantage;

Should have a minimum of 5 years of working
experience in a similar role in Government or reputable private sector

organization;

Practical experience in database monitoring and
use of automated monitoring tools;

Practical experience as a DBA maintaining
relational database systems such as PostgreSQL,
MySQL, Oracle, SqlServer etc.

Familiarity with Systems Development Lifecycle
methodology and AGILE methodology;

Working experience in Linux and Windows system administration at command line interface level e.g., copying/moving fi les, setting up batch processes, using native operating system text editors, searching and pattern matching etc.

Any other duties as may be assigned from time
to time.

How to Apply

Applications should accompanied by a detailed
Curriculum Vitae, copies of certifi cates and
testimonials, and at least three competent referees, one of whom must be a current or previous employer should be received not later than 31st March 2023, 5:00pm East African Time.

All applications should be addressed to;
The Commissioner, Human Resource Management
Ministry of Education and Sports, Embassy House,
King George VI Way,
P.0 Box 7063, Kampala, UGANDA
Hard copies should be hand-delivered to the
Security Registry (Floor 4, Room 1), Embassy
House

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