Database Administrator

Preferred Qualifications: Knowledge of HIV/AIDS, experience with public health surveillance, disease registries, or public health laboratory data and working with confidential data. Experience with Microsoft Access, Excel and SAS or other data analysis packages. Responsibilities:

• Build database systems of high availability and quality depending on each end user’s specialised role
• Design and implement database in accordance to end users information needs and views
• Define users and enable data distribution to the right user, in appropriate format and in a timely manner
• Use high-speed transaction recovery techniques and backup data
• Minimise database downtime and manage parameters to provide fast query responses
• Provide proactive and reactive data management support and training to users
• Determine, enforce and document database policies, procedures and standards
• Perform tests and evaluations regularly to ensure data security, privacy and integrity
• Monitor database performance, implement changes and apply new patches and versions when required