Senior Database Administrator

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT No. 16-2023.24

(External Only)

The vision of ECX is to become a leading and dynamic African Exchange of choice. ECX has a mission to provide a modern, efficient, transparent, and reliable market platform and warehousing service through the adaptation of technology, excellence in innovation, and integrity. ECX is a unique partnership of market actors, Members of the Exchange, and its main promoter, the Government of Ethiopia. ECX represents the future of Ethiopia, bringing integrity, security, and efficiency to the market. ECX would like to promote motivated and qualified applicants for the following positions.

Position: Senior Database Administrator

Job Grade:9

Duty Station:Addis Ababa/Head Office

Availability: As Soon As Possible

Job Purpose: - The purpose of the job is to provide technical support, Administer, and oversee overall ECX core business Databases at the headquarters (HEAD OFFICE). Disaster Recovery (DR) site Branch Offices and Regional Trading Centers; to assist the Manager IT Infra and support in running the Database infrastructure of the Exchange, and to Maximize ECXs database services uptime through maintenance of corporate database infrastructure.

SUMMARY OF MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Monitors and ensures All ECX business, corporate, and market data dissemination databases including SMS/IVR databases are properly functioning, optimized, and highly available and secured.

Coordinates database infrastructure Administration of the Exchange and ensures ECXs Databases data manipulation, modification, or reporting of ECX's database data elements are according to ECX's Database policy and standard document.

Ensures that all the ECX database policies and standards are followed on ECX database infrastructure.

Participates in recommending the most effective way to increase database performance including hardware purchases, server configuration changes, and query tweaking or index/query changes

Install, and maintain Database software and updates

Audit Database Access and Requests

Analyze the Impact of Database Changes on the Business

Analyze and Recommend Database Improvements

Debug Database Issues on Live Data

Design and Build a Database Management System

Implement a Backup and Recovery Plan

Proactively Tune the Database in Production

Test Database to Ensure Everything Operates Efficiently Without Error, Test Recovery Plans

Set Security Permissions for the Database, set safety Measures to Recover Data

Setup Safety Measures to Recover Data

Oversees and conducts restoration of ECXs business databases, and ensures the backup of the eTrade Application database and all business Critical databases of the Exchange and the restoration and recovery of corrupted business databases.

Monitors the proper functioning of the ECX Database infrastructure at all times on working and non-working hours, locally and remotely, and daily ensures primary and disaster recovery site databases are synchronized

Install new, rebuild, and repair existing or new Database Servers using established standards and requirements, and prepare Database testing environment based on design requirements.

Participates and assists Application developers on efficient database design, Updates eliciting business requirements, and database development

Ensures that new database code meets ECX database policy and standards for readability, reliability, security, and performance

Provides Tier III support to resolve database administration-related tasks

Performs other duties assigned by the immediate supervisor.

MSc\BSc - Information Technology, Computer science, and other related fields

4/6 years of relevant experience in System Administration, SAN administration, and Virtual systems administration-related work experience