Database Administrator

Bring your skills as a Database Administrator to Parys and join a team that moves fast. This Free State role is one to watch.

About This Position

The Database Administrator position is part of an ongoing recruitment drive across Free State. The brief has been shaped carefully, with a focus on delivery in Parys and across the it jobs space.

Day-to-day, the role balances focused delivery with the kind of collaboration that keeps things moving. The successful candidate is trusted to make sensible decisions inside the agreed scope, with line-management support whenever a sounding board is useful.

Stakeholders for this position include line managers, peers across the it jobs team and trusted external partners. Building those relationships early makes the next twelve months in Parys much easier.

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 Parys.

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.

Notably, the rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when Free State 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 Parys.

Practically speaking, the Parys 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.

Why This Role

Few roles let you see the impact of your work as quickly as this one. Every shift, project and decision in Parys contributes to real outcomes for clients and colleagues across the it jobs space in Free State.

In addition, the company reinvests in its people: paid training, internal moves and the chance to take on bigger projects are all part of how careers in Parys keep progressing.

Recognition matters here. Strong performers are noticed quickly, and many promotions across the business have started in the Parys teams.

Benefits are clear and consistent. Beyond the package on offer, the role includes the supports you would expect from an established South African employer in Free State.

Working in Parys

Importantly, the role is based in Parys, near the Bethlehem agricultural belt. Public transport links and parking are within easy reach, making the daily commute manageable for candidates living across Parys and the broader Free State region.

Accessibility is taken seriously: where the role allows, the team works toward a balance of in-office presence and flexibility for candidates based in and around Parys.

Many candidates already living within reach of Parys cite the location as one of the role’s quiet wins, with shorter commutes and a real sense of being plugged into the local Free State economy.

If you are relocating, the team can share practical pointers on neighbourhoods, transport and the typical pace of life in Parys, Free State.

Career Growth

This role can grow with you. Strong performers in the it jobs team in Parys have moved into senior, supervisory and specialist positions, and that journey is supported through coaching, training and exposure to bigger projects.

Training is a mix of formal courses, structured on-the-job learning and exposure to broader projects, all geared at building practical skills.

Internal mobility is encouraged. People who start in Parys have moved into roles in other branches, specialist functions and project teams across Free State.

Growth conversations happen at a regular cadence — not just at year-end — so the path forward stays current and realistic for every Parys team member.

Your Role

• Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime
• Diagnose and resolve production incidents within agreed SLAs
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable releases
• Manage user access, identity and endpoint security across the estate
• Write clean, testable code that follows the team’s coding standards
• Monitor system health using observability tools and respond to alerts
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams and runbooks

Essential Criteria

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
• Reliable home internet for hybrid work where applicable
• Experience with Git, branching strategies and pull-request workflows
• 2-5 years’ commercial software development experience
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Comfortable working in agile delivery teams

Candidates who meet most of these criteria are welcome to be considered for the role.