Database Administrator Job at Road Transport and Safety Agency

The Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) was established through an Act of Parliament, the Road Traffic Act No.11 of 2002. RTSA has the mandate to implement Government policies on safety and transport management. The Agency also collects revenue on behalf of the Government.

Responsibilities

• monitors performance and manages parameters to provide fast query responses to ‘front end’ users
• Considers both ‘back end’ organisation data and ‘front end’accessibility for end uses
• Refines the ‘logical design’ so that it can be translated into a specific data model
• Install and tests new versions of the database management system (DBMS)
• Maintains data standards, including adherence to the data protection ac
• Controls access permission and privileges
• Ensures that storage, archiving, backup and recovery procedures are functioning correctly
• communicates regularly with technical, applications and operations staff to ensure database intergrity and security
• commissions and installs new database

Qualifications

• Full grade 12 certificate with merits or better in mathematics and sciences
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Mathematics or equivalent experience from a recognized University
• Oracle certification (OCA or OCP or higher) is a huge advantage
• Five years work experience in ICT i a recognized institution
• At least two years work experience on Oracle Database Management

Other experience requirements

The candidate should have an in depth – knowledge in the following.

• Oracle architecture RMAN utility for database backup and recovery
• Oracle database performance tuning
• Proactively identification of poorly executing SQL statements
• Oracle data guard
• Oracle materialized views
• Oracle database schema management, data file and table space management

How to applySend applications, supporting documents and detailed CV clearly indicating position applied for, to the address below.
The Head Human Resources and Administration
Road Transport and Safety Agency
Dedan Kimathi Road
P.O.BOX 32167
Lusaka