Database Administrator Job. IT Jobs In Kenya

This is a hands-on leadership role ideal for a data professional who thrives in high-growth, high-impact environments with complex transactional systems at a global scale.

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Roles And Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable and highly available database systems across transactional, analytical, and reporting workloads.
• Architect and implement database security, encryption, access control, and audit mechanisms aligned with global data privacy standards (GDPR, PCI-DSS, local regulations).
• Develop and maintain robust disaster recovery, replication, and backup strategies ensuring business continuity.
• Proactively monitor database health, optimize query performance, indexing, locking, and resource utilization.
• Partner with product, software engineering, analytics, finance, and business operations teams to deliver data solutions that support PAYG, financial services, credit scoring, and customer insights.
• Automate routine database administration tasks via scripting, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Evaluate, recommend, and integrate new database technologies including cloud-native services, NoSQL, data lakes, and streaming platforms.
• Ensure data consistency, integrity, and availability across distributed geographies and payment systems.
• Analyze business needs and translate them into efficient data models, schemas, and data flows.
• Provide expert guidance on capacity planning, growth forecasting, and future-proofing the data platform.

Requirements

Desired Skills and Experience:

• 7+ years of hands-on database administration experience managing production systems.
• Proven leadership managing mission-critical databases supporting financial transactions, mobile money, or payments is highly desirable.
• Expert-level proficiency with relational database engines such as PostgreSQL (strongly preferred), MySQL, Oracle, or MSSQL.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud database platforms: AWS (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB), Google Cloud SQL, or equivalent.
• Solid understanding of modern database design principles: normalization, indexing, sharing, partitioning, clustering, replication.
• Strong proficiency in performance tuning, query optimization, monitoring tools, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) for database provisioning and management.
• Familiarity with NoSQL systems (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.) and data lake architectures is a strong advantage.
• Strong knowledge of data privacy regulations, security standards, and compliance frameworks.
• Professional, precise communication with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams and collaborating cross-functionally with diverse stakeholders.
• Experience in high-growth, fast-paced technology companies is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; certifications in PostgreSQL, AWS Database, or related disciplines are advantageous.

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