SQL Senior Database Administrator

Job Purpose

Provide advanced technical expertise and specialist support for the Hybrid SQL Database platform across on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments. Contribute to platform architecture, engineering standards, modernization initiatives, automation, resilience, security, and performance improvements. Support the adoption of cloud-native database technologies, DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and platform engineering practices while providing technical guidance, operational support, and subject matter expertise to engineering teams and stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to the evolution and implementation of the Hybrid SQL Database platform roadmap.
• Support the development and adoption of SQL engineering standards, patterns, reference architectures, and best practices.
• Participate in modernization initiatives including cloud migration, automation, platform transformation, and technical debt remediation.
• Provide specialist expertise on Azure SQL, SQL Managed Instance, Platform-as-a-Service, and related database technologies.
• Assist with the implementation of Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management, and automated deployment practices.
• Contribute to database automation, self-service capabilities, API integrations, and Database-as-a-Service initiatives.
• Research emerging technologies and provide technical recommendations to support platform and business objectives.
• Support platform performance, scalability, availability, recoverability, and resiliency improvements.
• Collaborate with architects, cloud engineers, cybersecurity teams, and product teams to align database solutions with enterprise standards.
• Contribute to observability, monitoring, telemetry, and proactive health management practices.
• Participate in technical reviews, design assurance activities, and implementation quality assessments.
• Support disaster recovery, business continuity, compliance, and security requirements across database environments.
• Provide expert technical support and escalation assistance for complex database and platform issues.
• Mentor and coach engineers and database administrators within the SQL domain.
• Contribute to DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and engineering productivity initiatives.
• Participate in proof-of-concepts, technology evaluations, and innovation activities.
• Conduct knowledge-sharing and technical enablement sessions.
• Support the achievement of business strategy, objectives, and values.
• Contribute to Nedbank culture-building initiatives.
• Participate in corporate responsibility initiatives aligned to business objectives.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, systems, and ways of working through agile thinking.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Essential Certifications

• Cloud fundamentals
• SQL and/or other database certifications
• Cloud Database related certification (AWS and/or Azure) - Advantage

Minimum Experience Level

• Min 5 IT Experience
• 3 years experience in Database Administration

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• SQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas
• Information Technology (IT) Architecture