Database Administrator

Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market. AVA has three major arms which have been streamlined to meet our customer's needs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Database Administrator
Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Carry out installation, upgrade and maintenance of all enterprise databases which serve as a driver for all applications.
• Provide production database support in 24x7 operations environment.
• Ensure quality and standard are maintained in the environment
• Monitor and optimize database Server performance.
• Maintain high availability of database Servers.
• Perform support functions down to the last line of support before escalating to senior specialist.
• Ensure that security and integrity of the databases are maintained at all times.
• Back up databases and implement a backup strategy.
• Perform and automate administrative tasks and create custom administrative tools.
• Conduct database test restore and recovery at intervals to ensure validity of backup.
• Ensure architecture design, planning, implementation and optimization.
• Conduct troubleshooting and resolve problems/requests that are escalated by the Database Administrators
• Develop standards, guidelines and procedure for managing and maintaining the database
• Perform and automate administrative tasks and create custom administrative tools.

Mandatory Qualifications & Experience

• A tertiary qualification – Preferably BSc/HND Computer Science or a related discipline
• OCA,OCP, MCP, MCDBA,MCSE, ITIL , TOGAF
• 4 -6 years Database Implementation and Design , experience in Oracle, MySQL, Mssql Databases
• 3+ years Unix experience in Linux, Sun Solaris etc.
• 3+ years’ experience IT related.
• Experience in database design and implementation.
• Knowledgeable in database performance tuning, backup and recovery.
• Knowledge on Infrastructure technologies covering Servers, database and Storage solutions and the architecture driving their evolution.
• Knowledge of application design and configuration
• Depth knowledge of database and application security
• Good interpersonal skills for written, oral and face to face communications
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills
• Ability to work effectively with clients, management and staff members
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and adapt to changing situations

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment@alfred-victoria.com with subject as "Database Administrator"