Database Administrator

Role: Database Administrator. Location: Lephalale, Limpopo. The team is hiring and seeks a candidate who can step in and deliver from week one.

Overview

This Database Administrator role sits within the it jobs function in Lephalale. It offers a defined scope, clear measures of success, and the support of an experienced team across Limpopo.

Expect a structured first ninety days, with onboarding milestones, regular check-ins, and an early focus on getting comfortable with the systems and processes that underpin the Lephalale team.

Quality is everyone’s job. Whether the Database Administrator is processing a transaction, supporting a colleague or handling a customer query, the standard expected in Limpopo is consistently high and consistently fair.

Reasonable working hours and respectful planning are part of how the role runs. The team values strong delivery, and load is balanced fairly across the it jobs group in Lephalale.

What Your Day Looks Like

Your day tends to start with a quick standup, where the team shares progress and surfaces blockers. From there, you settle into focused build time, breaking tickets into manageable chunks and pairing with colleagues when something gets thorny. Afternoons mix code reviews, planning discussions and the occasional production incident — everyone pulls together, fixes the issue and feeds the lessons back into the next sprint. By the time you sign off, you’ve shipped value, learned something new, and left clean code behind you.

The rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when Limpopo operations throw up the unexpected.

No two days look exactly the same — and that variety is part of what keeps the role engaging for the right candidate in Lephalale.

Importantly, the Lephalale office buzzes through peak hours and settles into focused, productive lulls in between, giving you time to plan and reset before the next stretch of work.

Our Commitment to Transformation

Inclusion is a core part of how the team operates. This is an equal-opportunity employer, and candidates from all communities — including women, youth and persons living with disabilities — are encouraged to apply for this role in Lephalale.

Inclusive hiring extends through onboarding and into how teams operate every day. Respectful, fair conduct is expected from every team member in Lephalale.

Practical steps back the words. Structured EE reporting, transformation initiatives and learnership programmes give real opportunities to candidates from across Limpopo.

B-BBEE compliance is more than a scorecard here. It informs how the business invests in skills development, supplier diversity and community engagement across the country.

Where You’ll Work

Practically speaking, the environment is hybrid-friendly where the role allows, with collaborative tooling, modern source-control workflows and a strong emphasis on shared ownership of code and incidents.

Health, safety and well-being are taken seriously. Current policies and procedures are maintained, and the Lephalale site adheres to the standards expected of a responsible South African employer.

On top of that, the working environment is set up to give the team the focus needed for deeper work, while keeping collaboration and quick problem-solving close at hand.

A respectful, professional environment is the standard in Limpopo. Bullying, harassment and unfair conduct have no place here, and managers are trained to act decisively when concerns are raised.

Your Team

Crucially, the team you will be working with is fast-paced and energetic. Things move quickly across the Lephalale office, and the people who thrive here are the ones who plan ahead, communicate openly and pick up the slack when Limpopo operations get busy.

Notably, the team mix in Lephalale reflects a balance of experienced operators and emerging talent, with deliberate space for diverse voices and backgrounds.

Collaboration is the default working mode. Whether picking up a quick query or working through a complex project, you will find colleagues willing to lean in and help.

Line management is hands-on without being heavy. Expect regular one-to-ones, honest feedback and the support needed to do good work consistently.

Your Role

• Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime
• Diagnose and resolve production incidents within agreed SLAs
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical design discussions
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripts and tooling
• Collaborate with product and design teams during sprint planning
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and structured feedback
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable releases
• Write clean, testable code that follows the team’s coding standards

Candidate Profile

• Ability to mentor junior team members on best practices
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tooling
• Understanding of secure development principles aligned with POPIA
• Strong proficiency in Java, C#, Python, JavaScript or TypeScript
• Relevant IT qualification (degree, diploma or recognised certifications)

If your CV speaks to the points above, this role is worth a closer look.