The new NSSA conducts its business in an honest, accountable, and transparent manner and we seek to recruit like-minded individuals in the following areas:
Reporting to the ICT Infrastructure Manager, the successful candidate is responsible for the administration, security, performance, and availability of organizational databases supporting critical business systems. The role supports the design, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of the organization’s database environment, including managing relational database systems such as Microsoft SQL Server and other enterprise database platforms.
Job Summary
- Type: contract
- Location: Harare
- Category: Database Administration
- Closing Date: 2026-06-05
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, maintain, and support NSSA enterprise databases including Microsoft SQL Server and other database technologies.
- Install, configure, upgrade, and patch database management systems.
- Ensure optimal database performance through monitoring, tuning, indexing, and query optimization.
- Design and maintain database structures, schemas, tables, views, and stored procedures.
- Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies including replication, clustering, and backups.
- Implement database security controls including access management, encryption, and auditing.
- Ensure compliance with ICT governance policies and information security standards.
- Monitor database activities to prevent unauthorized access and data breaches.
- Develop and maintain database backup and recovery procedures.
- Perform routine database backups and restoration tests.
- Ensure database resilience and recovery readiness in line with organizational disaster recovery plans.
- Monitor database performance and troubleshoot performance issues.
- Conduct capacity planning to ensure database systems meet future demand.
- Optimize database queries and indexing strategies.
- Support system development teams in database design and implementation.
- Provide database expertise in application development projects.
- Review database architecture for new systems to ensure scalability and performance.
- Support data integration across NSSA systems.
- Ensure data integrity, consistency, and reliability across databases.
- Manage database migrations, upgrades, and system integrations.
- Maintain database documentation including configurations, procedures, and architecture diagrams.
- Produce database performance and availability reports.
- Maintain database standards and best practice documentation.
- Provide expert advice on database technologies and architecture.
Requirements
- Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent.
- Professional database certifications will be an added advantage (e.g., Microsoft SQL Server Certification, Azure Database Administrator, Oracle DBA).
- ITIL or related ICT service management certification is an added advantage.
- Minimum 3 years’ experience.
How to Apply
To reach not later than close of business on Friday 5th June 2026.
About the Company
In Zimbabwe the National Social Security Authority (NSSA), constituted and established in terms of the NSSA Act of 1989, Chapter 17: 04 DOWNLOAD: NATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY AUTHORITY ACT 17 04 (PDF 128.4 KB), is the statutory corporate body tasked by the Government to provide social security. The provision of social security can be defined as instituting public policy measures intended to protect an individual in life situations or conditions in which his/her livelihood and well being may be threatened, such as those engendered by sickness, workplace injuries, unemployment, invalidity, old age, retirement and death. It is based on the principle of social solidarity and pooling of resources and risks, involving drawing of savings from periods of employment, earnings and good health to provide for periods of unemployment, old age, invalidity and death. At the moment NSSA is administering two schemes: Pension and Other Benefits Scheme and Accident Prevention and Workers’ Compensation Scheme, although, in an endeavor to provide a more comprehensive social security package for the Zimbabwean society, groundwork for the introduction of more schemes is underway.