Database Administrator

About the role

Britam is hiring a full-time Database Administrator for a middle-level position in Nairobi, Kenya. The role covers the maintenance, performance and security of database systems, including troubleshooting, capacity planning and backup strategies. The deadline to apply is 03/11/2026.

Key responsibilities

• Create and maintain database standards and policies, and support database design, creation and testing.
• Manage database availability and performance, including incident and problem management.
• Define event triggers that alert on potential performance or integrity issues.
• Perform database housekeeping such as tuning and indexing, and monitor usage, transaction volumes, response times and concurrency.
• Implement security measures, encryption, masking, whitelisting and activity monitoring, and manage users, privileges and role-based access control.
• Run quarterly access reviews, audit compliance and address audit findings.
• Design backup, archiving and storage strategy, and install upgrades and patches.

Required profile

• Degree in science, engineering or computer science.
• 5+ years of database administration experience.
• Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) or Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in Database Administration (19c or later).
• ITIL intermediate knowledge.
• Experience with high availability setups such as RAC, Data Guard or ASM, and with database migrations.
• Experience in 24/7 production support, including on-call rotations.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (OCI, AWS or Azure) is an advantage.