Oracle Applications Administrator (Applications DBA)

A leading local financial institution hereby invites applications from suitably qualified, experienced and self-motivated IT professionals with excellent credentials to fill the following vacancies in the Information Management Services Division:

1. Oracle Applications Administrator (Applications DBA)

He/She shall be charged with the responsibility of administering, managing and maintaining Oracle Applications installations.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Installation and configuration of all Oracle Applications environments
• Managing patches, upgrades, customizations, updates and Version Control of Oracle Applications Cloning of Oracle Applications Oracle Applications Concurrent Manager Administration; Forms/Report Servers Administration and Web Servers Administration (Oracle HTTPS Server and embedded Apache). Administration of all the Applications DBA (AD) utilities including adadmin, adpatch, adctrl etc
• Special application related regular and maintenance functions. Such as month end and period end functions.
• Oracle Applications Printer Configuration User Access Administration in Oracle Applications
• Providing technical support to business and application development teams; being the point of contact for Oracle Corporation.

Minimum Requirements

• Age 35 years and below
• College degree in a relevant technical field (Computer Science majors preferred)
• Oracle DBA Certification.
• At least 2 years working experience in administering Oracle eBusiness Suite 11i/12.
• At least 2 years UNIX experience.
• Experience with Oracle application administration in high availability environments.
• Extensive knowledge of Oracle10g/11g database and application servers.
• UNIX System Administration qualification/experience specific to IBM AIX is an added advantage
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, and ability to effectively interact with all levels of the organization Ability to work in large multi disciplinary teams.

Salary

The starting salary for this position will be Kshs 99,706.20.

Opportunity for career growth will be based on performance

Opportunity for career growth will be based on performance

If you meet the above requirements and consider yourself proactive, self-driven and up to the challenge, please send your application and updated curriculum Vitae to:

TS/2148
P.O. Box 49990-00100
Nairobi

So as to be received on or before 17th February , 2012.

Note:

Please do not apply for these positions if you do not have the required qualifications, experience or competencies as per the advertisement.

Applications received after deadline will not be considered.

Only short listed candidates shall be contacted and any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification