Junior Database Administrator: Grow with Enterprise-Scale DBs

Capital H Staffing and Advisory Solutions; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital H Staffing and Advisory Solutions is seeking a Junior Database Administrator to join our client’s on-site team in Gauteng, in a dynamic financial services environment. This role offers the chance to develop expertise and take on responsibilities maintaining and supporting critical database systems.

You will perform health checks, maintenance, patching, backups, DR/HA testing, user management, and assist with change requests.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of experience in IT support, data, or database-related roles.
• Knowledge of Database Administration principles.
• Experience with SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
• Troubleshooting skills in a database environment.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine health checks on database instances, including space utilisation and error log reviews.
• Execute scheduled database maintenance activities such as index rebuilds and statistics updates.
• Assist with database patching, service pack deployment, and version upgrades.
• Monitor daily backup jobs and perform periodic restore testing.
• Maintain disaster recovery and high-availability configurations.
• Monitor database performance metrics and alerting dashboards.
• Identify long-running or blocking queries and assist with optimisation.
• Administer user accounts, roles, and permissions.
• Support audit and compliance activities through audit-log reviews.
• Respond to service desk tickets with first- and second-line support.
• Prepare and implement change requests in line with change-management procedures.
• Support development and testing teams with database refreshes and environment provisioning.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts for operational tasks.
• Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, and knowledge-base articles.
• Participate in after-hours activities and maintenance windows.

Skills

1–2 years experience in IT support /数据

Tools

SQL Server

Oracle

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

Capital H Staffing and Advisory Solutions is seeking a Junior Database Administrator to join our client’s on-site team in Gauteng, in a dynamic financial services environment. This role offers the chance to develop expertise and take on responsibilities maintaining and supporting critical database systems.

You will perform health checks, maintenance, patching, backups, DR/HA testing, user management, and assist with change requests.