Server Database Administrator II

Job Description

Hello Future Server Database Administrator II

Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of our Server Database Administrator team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change

Role Purpose To be responsible for installing, configuring, maintaining and monitoring an environment consisting of Windows and Linux servers, connected to a SAN environment;
This environment will consist of both physical and virtual servers on both platforms

• Drive business profitability through effective cost management enabled by Information Technology solutions.
• Increase operational efficiency by identifying and recommending solutions that enhance cost‑effectiveness.
• Ensure effective Hardware and Software Asset Management across deployed environments to maximise return on technology investments.
• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customer expectations by providing proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions, ensuring fast and effective query resolution.
• Cultivate and manage productive working relationships with various stakeholders — including end‑users, SMEs, project managers and senior staff — by providing valuable input into business requirements.
• Install, configure, maintain and monitor environments consisting of Windows and Linux servers connected to a SAN, ensuring both physical and virtual servers are properly controlled, and managing server OS, application software and hardware upgrades.
• Comply with, understand and implement all IT development processes, meeting governance, legislative and audit requirements by applying and maintaining security policies aligned to FRB Audit standards.
• Perform UAT setup, testing, technical tasks and maintenance activities, ensuring all system alerts are addressed and escalated appropriately, and provide technical support for business servers and applications.
• Manage and maintain customer Service Level Agreements (SLAs) related to server installation, maintenance and support, ensuring adherence to architectural standards and compliance with change‑management procedures and policies.
• Provide efficient administrative services through careful, timely planning, reporting and updating of all relevant information.
• Manage own development to continuously grow competencies.
• Ensure continuous availability of all Disaster Recovery (DR), Training, Production, UAT and Development environments.

• Qualification:
  
  Post matric qualification in Bachelor of Technology NQF Level 7 or related qualification
• Experience:
  
  4 to 5 years’ experience in System Design and Administration with Databases.

• Knowledge and experience working on any of the following Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, MySQL / Maria
  
  DB, Postgre
  
  SQL, IBM Db2 Databases.
• Installing database engines and instances
• Applying patches, service packs, and version upgrades
• Configuring storage, memory, and instance parameters
• Design backup strategies (full, differential, incremental, log backups)
• Perform point‑in‑time recovery
• Test/validate restores
• Use built‑in tools like SQL Server Backup, RMAN (Oracle), , etc.
• Role‑based access (RBAC)
• Users, logins, permissions, and groups
• Implementing least‑privilege access
• Encryption at rest & in transit
• TLS/SSL configuration
• Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
• Understanding execution plans
• Index tuning (clustered, non‑clustered, column store, b‑tree, etc.)
• Reducing I/O, CPU & memory consumption
• Using monitoring tools (SQL Profiler, Performance Monitor, Oracle AWR, )
• Identifying bottlenecks: slow queries, locking, blocking, deadlocks
• Understanding execution plans
• Index tuning (clustered, non‑clustered, column store, b‑tree, etc.)
• Reducing I/O, CPU & memory consumption
• Scheduling jobs (SQL Agent, cron)
• API usage for cloud DB admin
• Infrastructure as code basics (Terraform, ARM templates—optional but valuable)
• Power…