DIB Bank Kenya Limited, is a fully owned subsidiary of Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC (AE). The Bank offers a comprehensive range of Islamic financial products and services with several attractive features based on a system of ethical banking principles for the benefit of all, irrespective of religion, creed, belief, or nationality. As a progressive Islamic Bank that embraces innovation and values creativity, we are seeking to recruit an agile and experienced professional for the below roles:
Job Purpose
To maximize availability, performance tuning, minimize downtime, regular backups of production databases and supporting production, development, and testing Database Systems, implementation and release of database changes
Key Responsibilities
- Identifying and resolving complex SQL server problems in large banking environments.
- Working on new technology implementation and improving database performance
- Engaging vendor support as required to resolve complex issues
- Analyzing and improving database performance for key processes.
- Creating a knowledge base with best practices and training to be available in a standard format to the ICT team.
- Daily refresh of report database and support for reports creation on the reporting platform for business.
- Enhance, improve & implement Oracle Disaster Recovery solutions including designing, configuring and support existing environment.
- Ensuring sufficient storage is available and allocation when required.
- Providing necessary information and enforcing closure of audit, change management and compliance issues.
- Support for new ongoing project development, testing and deployment.
- Carry out security updates / vulnerability management / security fixes processes on the databases regularly
- To provide support to design, plan & implement Disaster Recovery (DR) for Business-critical SQL Servers
- Testing of new fixes / patches / upgrades onto applications / participating in maintenance / upgrade activities with following the change process.
- To provide supporting role to DBA by:
- Resolving or fixing known issues with the help of documents or online/offline help.
- Performing database monitoring and taking needed corrective actions as per documentation.
- Service management (starting or stopping of database and relevant services).
- To provide adhoc support for oracle database related tasks.
All the above accountabilities include but not limited to any additional/new tasks or responsibilities assigned by the line Manager.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor of Engineering / Information Science and Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience in a similar role
- Microsoft Certified Professional, ITIL Certified.
- Ability to resolve issues by minimizing downtime.
- Able to offer real time solutions to problems
- Assertive and flexibility to adapt to change
- Team player and a great collaborator who works well in a team set up
- Database Management skills and process Management skills.
- Knowledge of Islamic Banking principles and Sharia laws
- Ability to perform the root cause analysis of re occurring issues and resolving the issue from root.
How to apply:
Send your CV and cover letter to careers@dibkenya.co.ke by Wednesday, 21st May 2025, quoting Database Administrator as the Subject of the email application. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.