Brian Kimani

Experience

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  Family Bank

  Jan 2008 - now

  Responsible for the management of all Family Bank Oracle databasesOracle RAC 11gR2 database and Grid infrastructure administration on AIX 6.1 Dataguard management- Responsible for management of 11gR2 Active dataguard DR siteService Oriented Architecture (SOA) administration Played a lead role in database wide optimization and instance and resource monitoring.Performing root cause analysis on failures. Resolve performance tuning related issues,reports and queries.Accountable for checking backup logs to ensure backups are successful, monitoring the alert log, general database housekeeping (e.g. datafile maintenance).Implementation of various security features in the bank’s core banking system to enforce several business rules.

  • Senior Database Administrator

    Feb 2011 - now

  • Database Administrator

    Jan 2008 - Jan 2011
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  IBM

  Feb 2014 - now

  Database Engineer - Global Technology Services,SSO Competency

  Airtel Africa Hub SupportDatabase performance tuning and monitoring on multiple platforms (AIX,RedHat Linux,Solaris,HP-UX)Backup monitoring and recovery processesOracle RAC and ASM administrationIBM Data Security Compliance for Airtel Data Ensuring high availability on multiple Telco systemsCapacity monitoring Data migrations