Job Summary At PwC, the Senior Associate is responsible for managing IT infrastructure and providing technical support for cloud-based Tax applications. The role includes maintaining servers, network configurations, troubleshooting, mentoring junior staff, and ensuring application reliability.
Responsibilities Provide essential technical support for cloud-based Tax applications
Analyze complex issues and propose viable solutions
Mentor junior team members to enhance their skills
Build and maintain positive client relationships
Navigate the complexities of application support in a dynamic setting
Maintain the reliability and performance of applications
Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to address challenges
Uphold service delivery standards
Qualifications What You Must Have
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years of experience in application support
Oral and written proficiency in English
Skills and Experience (What Sets You Apart) 3 years of experience in application support
Experience with Microsoft Azure PaaS
Skilled in SQL for issue analysis
Familiarity with Kusto Query Language (KQL)
Experience with Microsoft DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
Scripting experience in Bash, PowerShell, Python
Understanding of ITIL processes
Experience with monitoring tools like DataDog
Ability to manage competing priorities
Senior Associate – SQL Database Administrator Role responsibilities include owning the reliability, performance, security,



and availability of enterprise SQL databases and managing complex clusters and modernisation initiatives.
Responsibilities Own reliability, performance, security, and availability of enterprise SQL databases
Manage complex multi-node clusters, performance engineering, mission-critical tuning, security enforcement, and DR orchestration
Lead high-impact database changes, RCAs, and modernization initiatives
Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and provisioning pipelines (Terraform/Ansible)
Schedule and validate backups, conduct DR tests, maintain runbooks
Plan and apply vendor patches, validate post-upgrade functionality
Monitor performance and capacity, tune queries and indexes, forecast growth
Configure clustering, HA, Always On, log shipping, replication, failover drills
Implement encryption, masking, RBAC, audit user activity, generate compliance reports
Detect and troubleshoot database incidents, document root causes
Develop scripts for automation (Shell, PowerShell, PL/SQL, T-SQL)
Provide weekly performance dashboards and recommend optimisations
Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
4‑7 years of SQL Server administration experience
Proficiency with Azure SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, PowerShell, AWS RDS, Aurora, Terraform, Ansible
Experience with ITSM processes

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📌 SQL Database Administrator - Senior Associate (El Arenal)
🏢 Pwc South Africa
📍 El Arenal