Database Administrator

Title: Database Administrator

Grade: C6

Project: D016 – Analysis Unit

Location: Lusaka – Lusaka District, Lusaka Province

Publish Date: 25 Sep 2026 00:00

Deadline Date: 02 Oct 2026 00:00

Description Job Summary: The Database Administrator ensures the availability, integrity, performance, security and recoverability of production and non-production databases.

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Main Duties

• Installs, configures, upgrades and administers relational database systems across development, testing, staging and production environments.
• Monitors database availability, performance, storage growth and capacity, and resolves performance bottlenecks.
• Reviews and optimises SQL queries and advises software engineers on database design.
• Implements and verifies backups, conducts restoration testing and maintains replication, high-availability and disaster-recovery mechanisms.
• Manages database accounts, roles and privileges, and supports auditing, logging and security hardening with the Cybersecurity Expert.
• Implements approved schema changes, data migrations and upgrades, including database releases through CI/CD pipelines.
• Investigates and resolves database incidents escalated through the Service Desk.
• Maintains database architecture, configuration and recovery documentation and supports knowledge transfer.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related field.
• At least four years’ relevant database-administration or advanced database-management experience.
• Demonstrated experience administering enterprise relational database systems.
• Strong SQL skills.
• Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle or comparable professional certification.
• Experience with large health databases.
• Cloud database-administration experience.

Technical Knowledge And Skills Microsoft SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL/MySQL; SQL optimisation; backup and recovery; replication; high availability; database security; indexing; monitoring; capacity management; schema management; data migration.