Description
Takealot is hiring a Senior Database Administrator to deploy, operate, support, and manage databases for its engineering and product applications in Cape Town. The role covers query optimization, schema design, backups, replication, security, disaster recovery, database architecture, cloud infrastructure, performance monitoring, and collaboration with development, network, and system teams. It also includes mentoring junior DBAs and contributing to database roadmaps and process improvements. The position requires a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or 5–7 years of related experience, along with extensive relational and non-relational database expertise and knowledge of auxiliary systems.
