The Central Bank of Kenya hereby invites applications from
suitably qualified, experienced and self-motivated candidates with proven track
record to fill the following position.
1. Oracle Applications Administrator
Brief Description
1. Oracle Applications Administrator
Brief Description
He/She shall be charged with the responsibility of administering, managing and maintaining Oracle Applications installations in the Bank.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Installation and
configuration of all Oracle Applications environments
- Managing
patches, upgrades, customizations, updates and Version Control of Oracle
Applications
- Cloning of
Oracle Applications
- Oracle
Applications Concurrent Manager Administration; Forms/Report Servers
Administration and Web Servers Administration (Oracle HTTPS Server and
embedded Apache).
- Administration
of all the Applications DBA (AD) utilities including adadmin, adpatch,
adctrl etc
- Special application
related regular and maintenance functions. Such as month end and period
end functions.
- Oracle
Applications Printer Configuration
- User Access
Administration in Oracle Applications
- Providing
technical support to business and application development teams; being the
point of contact for Oracle Corporation.
Minimum Requirements
- Age 35 years and
below
- College degree
in a relevant technical field (Computer Science majors preferred)
- Oracle DBA
Certification.
- At least 2 years
working experience in administering Oracle eBusiness Suite 11i/12.
- At least 2 years
UNIX experience.
- Experience with
Oracle application administration in high availability environments.
- Extensive
knowledge of Oracle10g/11g database and application servers.
- UNIX System
Administration qualification/experience specific to IBM AIX is an added
advantage
- Excellent
communication and organizational skills, and ability to effectively
interact with all levels of the organization
- Ability to work
in large multi disciplinary teams.
2. Oracle Database Administrator
Brief Description
The candidate must demonstrate ability to administer and maintain large database installations in a busy environment where security is of top priority.
Key Responsibilities and Work Experience
Brief Description
The candidate must demonstrate ability to administer and maintain large database installations in a busy environment where security is of top priority.
Key Responsibilities and Work Experience
- Enterprise
database server administration for 24/7 data availability of key systems.
- Assist in the
selection, installation, qualification, testing, and validation of
enterprise database systems and applications. Work closely with internal
and external developers to develop and maintain custom and third-party
database applications.
- Responsible for
documenting all database installations and configurations.
- Design and
develop databases, database users and database security and other database
objects including stored procedures. Maintain version control of custom
database objects and assist with the creation of entity relationship and
modeling diagrams for new custom databases.
- Create and
maintain jobs/scripts with automated scheduling and alerts, configuration
and monitoring for all current and future databases. Responsible for
monitoring the status of scheduled backups and database jobs.
- Responsible for
database security and the analysis and application of database patches and
upgrades to database servers and components.
- Optimization and
performance tuning for all current and future databases and assisting the
application team with application performance tuning.
- Work with the
Information Security Office to ensure compliance. Participate in audits by
maintaining the necessary logs and providing reports or extracts to the
qualified resources as requested for the audits.
- Perform imports,
exports and data conversion from one system to another as needed.
- Migrate between
database platforms as necessary.
- Develop,
implement and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for database
administration including backup, restoration, administration, and disaster
recovery.
- Participate in
designing, setting up, implementing and testing business continuity and
disaster recovery installations within the Bank.
- Performing
capacity planning required creating and maintaining the databases while
working closely with system administrators.
- Evaluating
releases of Oracle and its tools, and third party products to ensure that
the company is running the products that are most appropriate while
working with the application developers and System administrators, to
ensure that any new product usage or release upgrade takes place with
minimal impact.
- Enforcing and
maintaining database constraints to ensure integrity of the database.
- Administering
all database objects, including tables, clusters, indexes, views,
sequences, packages and procedures.
- Assisting with
impact analysis of any changes made to the database objects.
- Troubleshooting
problems regarding the databases, applications and development tools.
- Creating new
database users as required.
- Manage sharing
of resources amongst applications.
Minimum Requirements
- Age 35 years and
below
- College degree
in a relevant technical field (Computer Science majors preferred)
- Oracle DBA
Certification.
- At least 2 years
UNIX experience
- At least 2 years
of Oracle database administration in a UNIX environment.
- Experience with
database administration in high availability environments.
- UNIX System
Administration qualification/experience specific to IBM AIX is an added
advantage
- Excellent
communication and organizational skills, and ability to effectively
interact with all levels of the organization
- Ability to work
in large multi-disciplinary teams.
If you consider yourself proactive, self-driven and up to the
challenge, please visit the following link www.centralbank.go.ke/careers/ and
submit your application online so as to be received on or before April 13,
2012.
Note:
Note:
- Applications
received after deadline will not be considered
- Only short
listed candidates will be contacted
- Canvassing,
either directly or indirectly, will result in automatic disqualification
of the affected Applicant.
Central Bank of Kenya is equal opportunity employer
