Lead Specialist: Storage and Database

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric (Grade 12)
• 8 years experience in a similar environment, of which 2 - 3 years at specialist level
• Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Information Technology and Computer Science
• Skilled in Agile Methodolog
• Preferred - SAFe Agilist (Leading SAFe)
• Preferred - AWS Certified Solutions Architect)
• Associate Certification
• Preferred - Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamental

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to strategy enablement and implementation and delivery optimisation across an internal value chain, through best practice development and implementation
• Develop alternatives and identify optimal best practice solutions for tactical problems
• Develops and maintains procedures and documentation for databases. Contributes to the setting of standards for definition, security and integrity of database objects and ensures conformance to these standards
• Work with Product Management and service providers to ensure economic prioritisation and demand-to-capacity matching
• Own domain-specific Disaster Recovery strategy, testing and execution aligned to the broader enterprise Business Continuity Management context
• Lead Domain specific strategy development and implementation, governance, delivery execution and IT operations in the enterprise (end-to-end ownership) in storage and data based on the level of criticality of the information
• Work with System Architect/Engineering to understand Enabler work to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the technological infrastructures that will host the new business functionality