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Salary: R 350 000 - R 400 000pa

Full-Time position in the Information Technology sector in Western Cape South Africa
Posted by: Armstrong Appointments on 20-Aug-2012


N.B. Please note this is an opportunity for South African citizens who are EE/AA candidates

A great opportunity exists for a Technical Specialist in the Western Cape with a large organisation.
To operationalise world class services to ensure the Company business systems are accessed cost effectively and efficiently.

Qualifications
•    Oracle Certification (non-negotiable requirement)

Experience/Criteria
Technical and Functional
•    Minimum 5 years of experience
•    Performance monitoring and tuning
•    Oracle RAC and ASM
•    SQL, PL/SQL coding skills
•    Performance Tuning
•    RMAN Backups
•    Experience with data warehouses
•    Experience with OLTP systems
•    Experience with SAN’s
•    Work with application development staff to develop database architectures, coding standards, and quality assurance policies and procedures.
•    Experience working with UNIX (AIX beneficial)

Behavioral
•    Personal effectiveness by having a results-orientated outlook, work under pressure, ability to meet goals/deadlines and manage consequences of non-delivery
•    Passion for brand and customers
•    Lead transformation by recognising opportunities for change and improvement and absorbing new information
•    Connect with people by establishing strong relationships and consulting others when making decisions with solid communication skills
•    Deliver high performance and a proactive personality
•    Make insightful business decisions by applying analytical and problem solving skills according to clear rules and guidelines
•    Drive quality by paying attention to detail and strict adherence to processes and procedures
•    Plan and organise by identifying priorities and achieving objectives
•    Ability to make insightful decisions
•    Have a merchant mindset

Main Job Function
•    Understand and keep abreast of the Company IT infrastructure by using the appropriate internal sources of information
•    Operations management of incidents and problems in this area with 3rd party service providers
•    Understand and keep abreast of non-technical factors that have a direct bearing on technological decisions such as budget constraints and business objectives by establishing business contacts and doing appropriate fact finding
•    Track compliance to the Governance process with 3rd party Service providers
•    Test Manager – responsible to arrange testing of new technologies derived from approved business cases – Manage implementation thereof
•    Maintain and analyse internal records of problem causes and resolutions, identify trends and modify the resolution actions to prevent recurrence
•    Communicate progress, status, events, planned activities, issues to all relevant parties
•    Ensure that team members, management and other staff members working in related areas of technical concern are informed on all relevant technical decisions, discoveries, practices, processes, knowledge and information
•    Establish and maintain good working relationships with other Company structures
•    Ensure that sustainability and impact of the administration of technical solutions are understood and taken into account when technical solutions are proposed
•    Propose continuous improvement with regards technology being used to improve business processes.
•    Ensure compliance to standards set with compliance monitoring methodologies
•    Propose continuous enhancements to processes where applicable

A Consultant will be in touch if you are shortlisted for the position. Please consider your application unsuccessful should you not have been contacted within 2 weeks. We will keep your CV on our database and contact you should you match the criteria of any other vacancies

Attention
Beverley Benatar

Job Code
BBTS

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