SQL Database Administrator

The Role:

Have you ever thought of joining a high growth startup that’s redefining its industry? Look no further!  We are one of the fastest growing companies in our sector, using innovative technology and solving the hardest problems to bring African sports fans an unrivalled digital sports entertainment experience, online, offline, and 24/7.

As a Database Administrator, you will be joining an engineering team focused on delivering the best possible customer experience, by ensuring the uptime, scalability, and performance of our products. With systems that need to be highly resilient, extremely low latency and scalable to massive volume, you will work with other Database Administrators, Architects and Product Engineering teams to keep things optimal for today whilst also focusing on the future state as we move to a highly automated and service-led landscape.

Part of our rapidly growing Tech team, you will have the opportunity to be part of our future and play a crucial role in taking KingMakers to the next level!

What you will be doing:  

• Working within a central DBA team whilst interfacing with an assigned dev squad 
• Traditional MS SQL Server administration tasks such as backups, availability group maintenance, version upgrades, connectivity issues, infrastructure management etc… 
• Pre-emptive T-SQL optimisation, identification and tuning of high consuming queries achieved through in-depth query performance monitoring 
• Partitioning and database size management 
• T-SQL code review for an assigned dev squad as well as supporting developers with efficient database design 
• Developing and maintaining archiving strategies, data extraction and data insertion pipelines using T-SQL and/or Azure Data Factory 
• Code and infrastructure automation using tools such as PowerShell, Terraform and Azure DevOps 
• Migrating to and creating managed database services such as Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instances 
• Participating in an on-call support roster 

What is essential for the role: 

• Experience as a MS SQL Server database administrator. 
• Expertise with performance Tuning and T-SQL Optimisation.  
• Experience with busy databases handling large volumes of transactions per day. 
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with a broad range of stakeholders up to C-level 
• A natural problem solver with excellent organisation and prioritisation skills 
• Experience of decision making in a pressurised environment 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills  
• University degree or equivalent from a knowledge & experience perspective 

Nice to have  

• Experience in data engineering 
• Experience in Microsoft Azure would be considered a strong asset 
• Experience with any of the following considered an asset; Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory, MongoDB, MySQL, Terraform, Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage

How you do it – Expectations for fulfilling your role:  

As a general rule at KingMakers we want people to be:  

• Customer Focus: We keep the customer at the center of everything we do.  
• Passion & Dedication: We are passionate about what we do, employing only smart, honest, dedicated, and results oriented team players.  
• Openness, Honesty & Directness: We embrace a culture of candor and work together towards the right solution whilst being open, honest, and willing to give and receive feedback, judgment-free. We play the ball, not the person.  
• Innovation & Big Thinking: We always look for ways to innovate whilst not losing sight of what's important. The bigger we think, the more we inspire, the better the outcome.   
• Ownership & Accountability: We think like owners. If we see a problem, we find a solution. We are pragmatic and always strive to do more with less. 
• Speed & Focus: We plan, we strategize, but mostly, we DO. Without doing, there is no progress, we can always change direction but only if we start moving. Fast beats slow.  
• Low Ego: The best solutions are achieved when we leave our egos at the door. We always seek opportunities to learn in every situation. No job too small.  
• Fun: On balance, we believe in having fun whilst working. We maintain perspective as best as we can, and together, we celebrate our successes together.