SENIOR DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR SPECIALIST

<div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; font-size: 14px;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"><p style="border: none; padding: 0in; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">ROLE OBJECTIVE&nbsp;</strong></p></div><p style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:12.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify;line-height:150%;vertical-align:baseline;">The Senior Database Administrator Specialist is responsible for designing, implementing, and operating, and optimizing enterprise database platforms and distributed data streaming systems. The role ensures high availability, security, performance, and regulatory compliance of ODP’s data infrastructure, supporting mission-critical applications, analytics platforms, and customer workloads.</p><p style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:12.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify;line-height:150%;vertical-align:baseline;">The role holder is expected to drive operational excellence, improve service reliability, implement automation, and align data platform services with ODP’s sovereign cloud, governance, and compliance frameworks.</p><p style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-top:12.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify;line-height:150%;vertical-align:baseline;">This role would report to the Director – Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE).</p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"><p style="text-align: justify; border: none; padding: 0in; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="text-align:justify;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></p></div><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Strategic Responsibilities&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;">- Evaluate and implement database and streaming technologies aligned with organizational strategy.<br>- Ensure consistent achievement of SLAs, KPIs, and service availability targets.<br>- Establish governance frameworks, policies, and operational standards for data platforms.<br>- Lead continuous improvement initiatives for performance, security, and scalability.<br>- Support digital transformation, cloud migration, and modernization programs.<br>- Contribute to capacity planning, technology roadmaps, and investment planning.<br>- Support audit, risk, and compliance initiatives<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">.</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:150%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Technical Responsibilities</strong></p><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;">Database Administration<br>- Install, configure, administer, and maintain enterprise databases.<br>- Manage relational, NoSQL, and distributed database environments.<br>- Perform database upgrades, patching, and version management.<br>- Design and implement high availability, clustering, and replication solutions.<br>- Conduct database migrations and platform modernization activities.<br>- Implement data lifecycle management, archiving, and retention policies.</p><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Performance &amp; Capacity Management</strong><br>- Monitor system performance, query execution, and resource utilization.<br>- Optimize queries, indexing, storage, and memory allocation.<br>- Conduct workload analysis and performance tuning.<br>- Plan and forecast storage, compute, and licensing requirements.</p><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Kafka &amp; Data Streaming Management</strong><br>- Deploy, configure, and manage Apache Kafka clusters.<br>- Administer brokers, topics, partitions, and consumer groups.<br>- Monitor throughput, latency, and message durability.<br>- Manage Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and streaming pipelines.<br>- Support event-driven and real-time analytics platforms.<br>- Ensure fault tolerance and disaster recovery for streaming platforms.</p><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;tab-stops:445.5pt;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Backup, Recovery &amp; Disaster Recovery</strong><br>- Design and maintain enterprise backup and recovery strategies.<br>- Conduct periodic restoration testing and DR simulations.<br>- Ensure compliance with RPO and RTO requirements.<br>- Maintain business continuity documentation.</p><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Security &amp; Compliance</strong><br>- Implement access controls, encryption, and auditing mechanisms.<br>- Manage user roles, privileges, and authentication.<br>- Ensure compliance with PDPL, TRA, ISMS, and internal governance.<br>- Support security audits, vulnerability assessments, and remediation.<br>- Enforce data privacy and residency requirements.</p><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Automation &amp; Platform Engineering</strong><br>- Automate operational tasks using scripting and orchestration tools.<br>- Integrate database platforms with CI/CD pipelines.<br>- Implement Infrastructure as Code practices.<br>- Develop monitoring, alerting, and self-healing mechanisms.<br>- Improve operational efficiency through standardization.</p><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Operations &amp; Support</strong><br>- Provide L3/L4 support for critical incidents.<br>- Lead root cause analysis and preventive actions.<br>- Participate in change, release, and configuration management.<br>- Maintain technical documentation, SOPs, and runbooks.<br>- Prepare operational, capacity, and performance reports.<br>- Manage vendor support engagements and escalations.<br>- Optimize cost and resource utilization.</p><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">People Management Responsibilities</strong></p><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;">- Lead, mentor, and develop database and data platform teams.<br>- Ensure adequate staffing, skills development, and certification.<br>- Conduct performance reviews and training needs assessments.<br>- Promote knowledge sharing and best practices.<br>- Ensure operational readiness for system changes.<br>- Foster a culture of accountability, quality, and continuous learning.</p><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Key Interactions and Relationships</strong></p><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">Internal</strong><br>- All Departments<br>- Application Development Teams<br>- Cloud &amp; Infrastructure Teams<br>- Information Security<br>- Enterprise Architecture<br>- Operations &amp; NOC Teams<br>- PMO and Governance Teams</p><p style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 14px;" fr-original-style="line-height:150%;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700;">External</strong><br>- Technology Vendors<br>- Cloud Service Providers<br>- System Integrators<br>- Government Authorities<br>- Consultants and Contractors<br>- Partners and Clients</p>