About Company
A financial institution that offers online/internet banking, retail banking, corporate banking, investment banking, and asset management services.
Job Description
A top-tier bank is in need of a senior Ms SQL Database Administrator to keep their databases running.
Location: Lagos, Nigeria (Onsite)
Experience: Senior level
Contract Duration: 11 Months (full-time)
Salary: N400,000 – N550,000
Contact: Ossy Ekwueme (sales@cousant.com)
Responsibilities
- Build database systems of high availability and quality depending on each end user’s specialized role
- Design and implement database in accordance to end users information needs and views
- Define users and enable data distribution to the right user, in the appropriate format, and in a timely manner
- Use high-speed transaction recovery techniques and backup data
- Minimize database downtime and manage parameters to provide fast query responses
- Provide proactive and reactive data management support and training to users
- Determine, enforce and document database policies, procedures, and standards
- Perform tests and evaluations regularly to ensure data security, privacy, and integrity
- Monitor database performance, implement changes, and apply new patches and versions when required
Requirements for Senior Database Administrator
- Has at least 5 years experience in Microsoft SQL Server Database Administration.
- Knowledge of other popular databases will be added advantage
- Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues,
- performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication issues
- Knowledge of query optimization
- Expert knowledge of Database Clustering, High Availability (Always ON) and
- Disaster Recovery (DR) options for MS SQL databases
- Knowledge of indexes, index management, and database statistics
- Good communication and documentation skills
- Strong knowledge of indexes, index management, integrity checks, configuration
- and database patching
- Candidate must be able to build database systems of high availability
- The candidate must be able to provide proactive and reactive data management
- support
- The candidate must be able to implement the release of database changes
- Experience in the implementation of database replication solutions
- Knowledge of users access permissions and privileges
- Proficient in MS SQL Server 2016 and above
- Proficient with Linux and Windows Operating System
- Good knowledge of database backup and recovery
- Knowledge of Oracle Golden gate will be added advantage
