Senior Database Administrator

  • Full-time

Company Description

MIU was founded in 1996. Since then it has become one of the leading private universities in Egypt. MIU takes pride in providing the Egyptian market with high-caliber graduates and potential future leaders. To fulfill this mission, MIU provides the opportunity for candidates who find that they meet the different job requirements. If you seek to develop your career path and wish to join a highly competitive as well as cooperative work environment feel free to apply.

Job Description

  • Implement backup/restore policies for databases.
  • Evaluate and execute non-application initiated queries.
  • Investigate and resolve all database crashes, failures, and unexpected behavior.
  • Installation and support of DB software and patches.
  • Troubleshooting performance issues, design and implementation of solutions.
  • Work with Engineering to develop solutions to performance and availability problems.
  • Helps identify underlying trends and production problems.
  • Execution of database maintenance, including Reorgs, Deletes.
  • Provide data migration support.
  • Perform database capacity planning and trend analysis.
  • Monitor capacities and utilization of database systems.
  • Plan, coordinate and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure.
  • Approve, schedule, plan, and supervise the installation and testing of new products and improvements to computer systems, such as the installation of new databases.
  • Establish and calculate optimum values for database parameters, using manuals and calculator.
  • Specify users and user access levels for each segment of database.
  • Analyze Key Performance Metrics and make recommendations for improvements.
  • Review procedures in database management system manuals for making changes to database.
  • Identify and evaluate industry trends in database systems to serve as a source of information and advice for upper management.

Qualifications

  • 5 or more years of DBA experience.
  • Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or similar.
  • Experience supporting multiple medium databases.
  • Experience in supporting critical production infrastructure.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects.
  • Good oral and written communication skills.
  • Possess a positive outlook, results orientation, and problem solving ability.
  • Ability to work well in a team based environment.