Junior Database Administrator (CH1271

Are you ready to elevate your career by taking on a pivotal role within a dynamic financial services environment? Our client, a reputable organisation committed to excellence and innovation, is seeking a motivated Junior Database Administrator to join their on-site team in Gauteng. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your expertise and assume significant responsibilities in maintaining and supporting critical database systems.

• Perform routine health checks on database instances, including space utilisation, transaction log growth, scheduled job status, and error log reviews

• Execute scheduled database maintenance activities, such as index rebuilds, reorganisation, statistics updates, and consistency checks

• Assist with database patching, service pack deployment, and version upgrades

• Monitor daily backup jobs, address or escalate failures, and perform periodic restore testing to validate backup integrity and recoverability

• Assist with maintaining, documenting, and testing disaster recovery and high-availability configurations

• Monitor database performance metrics and alerting dashboards

• Identify long-running, blocking, or resource-intensive queries and assist with query and index optimisation

• Administer user accounts, roles, and permissions following least-privilege principles

• Support audit and compliance activities through audit-log reviews and evidence collection

• Respond to service desk tickets, providing first- and second-line support to developers, analysts, and business users

• Prepare, submit, and implement change requests in line with change-management procedures

• Support development and testing teams with database refreshes, data masking, and environment provisioning

• Develop and maintain automation scripts for operational tasks

• Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, configuration registers, and knowledge-base articles

• Participate in after-hours activities, scheduled maintenance, releases, and upgrades

• 1–2 years’ experience in IT support, data, or database-related roles

• Knowledge of Database Administration principles

• Experience with SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL

• Troubleshooting skills in a database environment

• Familiarity with scripting and automation tools

• Understanding of disaster recovery and high-availability configurations

• An opportunity to grow professionally within a supportive and innovative team

• Exposure to diverse database systems and enterprise-level projects

• Supportive environment that values continuous learning and development