Database Administrator

Posted 18 Days Ago
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Cape Town, Western Cape
Mid level
Fintech • Insurance • Financial Services
The Role
As a Database Administrator at Ozow, you will manage and optimize AWS-hosted databases, particularly in RDS, ensuring performance tuning, backups, and secure data access. Key responsibilities include using performance analyzer tools, fine-tuning queries and indexes, and implementing disaster recovery plans, among others.
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What to expect

Ozow is looking for a Database Administrator that has experience administering AWS hosted database servers in RDS. You will perform normal database administration duties such as performance tuning, ensuring backups are done and testing backups, monitoring database performance and improving it where necessary as well as ensuring that the databases and data are securely stored and accessed, all with the twist of being done in AWS RDS so experience there is tantamount to success in this role.  


Requirements

  • An IT diploma or degree 
  • At least 3+ years work-related experience  
  • Experience with Microsoft SQL Server  
  • Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL  
  • Experience with AWS RDS  
  • DBA experience working with Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL/MySQL hosted on AWS RDS  
  • Experience working with a database performance analyser tool (e.g. Solarwinds DPA)  
  • Experience identifying and fine-tuning queries and indexes to optimize database performance  
  • Experience managing database backups and restoration in AWS  
  • Experience with disaster recovery testing and planning  
  • Experience managing minor and major updates to RDS instances  
  • Experience with database archiving strategies and implementing them.  
  • AWS DMS (advantageous). 
  • DynamoDB experience (advantageous). 
  • Data migration between database technologies (e.g. from MS SQL Server to PostgreSQL) (advantageous). 


In office perks 

  • Healthy breakfast, lunches and snacks (Cape Town) 
  • Healthy lunches and snacks (Johannesburg) 
  • Monthly socials (Cape Town and Johannesburg) 
  • On-site Barista (Cape Town and Johannesburg) 
  • Ozow Library (Cape Town)  
  • Birthday Leave


Perks for South African based employees

  • Medical aid subsidy (permanent staff)
  • Group Risk Insurance (permanent staff)
  • Generous paid annual leave   
  • Learning and Development opportunities 
  • Mentorship programme
  • Quarterly team building 
  • Community initiatives 
  • Employee gifting 
  • Access to cutting edge technology 

 

Our Employee Value Proposition

Join Ozow and become part of an elite force that challenges the ordinary and achieves the extraordinary. If you're driven to make an impact, embrace challenges, and seek unparalleled opportunities for growth, your journey starts here.

Compliance

As a fintech company, we prioritize data security and compliance. Due to the sensitive nature of our work, we require individuals with a high level of integrity and trustworthiness to ensure adherence to financial regulations and industry standards.


Ready to be exceptional? Apply now! 

As a fintech company, we prioritize data security and compliance. Due to the sensitive nature of our work, we require individuals with a high level of integrity and trustworthiness to ensure adherence to financial regulations and industry standards.


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To find out more about life at Ozow, head over to our Careers Page here!

Top Skills

AWS
Microsoft Sql Server
MySQL
Postgres
The Company
Cape Town
143 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Ozow is the future of payment as we know it. An oh-so (or Ozow) easy, automated and ultra-secure EFT solution that helps customers pay in just a few seconds, merchants can initiate Ozow payments through a variety of payment platforms, such as SMS, eCommerce, eBilling, QR Code and instore Point-of-Sale (POS). Through Ozow’s precise and secure system (that reduces the risk of charge-backs), merchants get real-time payments with instant transaction notifications and automated bank reconciliations. As no card is required for payment, their products are also more widely available, resulting in less abandoned carts, increased sales and more happy customers. Furthermore, merchants enjoy transaction fees as low as 1,5%, with no monthly costs, setup fees, or minimum charges, enabling them to save their money. As an added bonus, merchants processing up to R1m per month can use Ozow for free in their first year, no strings attached. Ozow is committed to financial inclusion on a continent where many people are disenfranchised by a lack of payments options. Furthermore, Ozow is committed to making it affordable for smaller businesses to take their trade to a wider audience, and to ensure that if traditional payment methods are unavailable, merchants don’t suffer. To date, Ozow has processed over a billion transactions, and has processed a combined value exceeding R5 billion. Ozow is bringing commerce to a wider audience, promoting financial inclusion and innovating for our customers. Paying with us is Ozow easy, Ozow fast and Ozow trusted

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