Ms/SQL Dba

-Introduction

The founding of Metropolitan dates to as early as 1898 and Momentum traces its roots to being established in 1966. Momentum Metropolitan Holdings was formed from the merger of Metropolitan and Momentum, two sizeable and diverse insurance-based financial services companies in South Africa and was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on 1 December 2010.

In order to grow its international footprint and diversify its revenue streams, Momentum Metropolitan actively pursues financially viable opportunities across the world. Aditya Birla Health Insurance Company Limited, a joint venture with Aditya Birla Capital Limited, was incorporated in 2015 and was our first expansion into India.

Having experienced India first-hand as a hub of both talent and opportunity, we set up Momentum Metropolitan Services in 2017, a wholly-owned Mumbai-based global in-house centre to leverage IT, ITES and Business support services to all our businesses worldwide.
Role Purpose
Requirements

Minimum 5-7 Years experience in MS/SQL Admin role.
Duties & Responsibilities

**Operations**
- Delivering and maintaining required documentation.
- Ensuring implementation of non-functional requirements on agreed technical and architectural standards.
- Defining, documenting, communicating and enforcing required standards, guidelines and best practices.
- Performing capacity planning.
- Performing trend analysis and forecasts.
- Compiling and delivering required reporting.
- Problem solving and in-depth root cause analysis.
- Analyzing system performance, make and implement recommendations on systems improvements and system tuning.
- Designing and delivering on continuity requirements.
- Ensuring optimum utilization and configuration of installed infrastructure.
- Planning, scoping and delivery of projects.
- Roadmap/ Upgrade path.
- Upgrades and patching of software.

**Service Excellence**
- Proactively manage the environment to honor required service levels.
- Building and maintaining healthy collaborative partnerships with relevant stakeholders.
- Work effectively in a team.
- Can also work independently.
- Regular and constant feedback on planned activities.
Competencies

**Technical Skills**:

- Installing MSSQL software.
- Database creations.
- Installing, configuring and managing MSSQL Clusters.
- Estimate MSSQL database capacities; develop methods for monitoring database capacity and usage.
- proactive intervention, reducing any need downtime.
- Responsible for regular maintenance on databases (e.g., Vacuum, Re-indexing, Archiving).
- Managing Database Storage Structures
- Administering User Security
- Managing Data Concurrency
- Implementing Database Auditing
- Investigations and implementation of encryption (Data in-transit and data at rest)
- Implementing Database Auditing
- Database Maintenance
- Performance Management
- Responsible for query tuning
- Backup and Recovery Concepts
- Performing Database Backups and recoveries
- Data migrations
- Adherence to the Patch management policy
- Experience with database migrations to PostgreSQL will be an added advantage
- Good Communication skills
- Good Time management skills

**Soft Skills**:

- Excellent problem solving, organisational and communication skills.
- Must be a team player and able to build relationships.
- Must be detail oriented
- Continuously develop own expertise in terms of professional, industry and legislation knowledge

Policy

We are committed to Employment Equity, diversity and inclusion when recruiting internally and externally. All appointments are made in alignment to our Employment Equity goals and we encourage people with disabilities to apply.