Database Administrator at Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited
Employment Nigeria
31-Jan-2024
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LAGOS ,
Manufacturing
Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited is one of the largest manufacturing companies in Nigeria, producing and distributing some of the nation’s most- loved beverages in the country like; Pepsi, 7Up, Mirinda, Teem, Mountain Dew, H2oH!, Lipton Ice Tea and Aquafina premium drinking water. SBC has recently entered into Home & Personal Care category with the 2SURE brand and launched its first product, a Hand & Surface Sanitizer. Seven Up boasts of nine bottling plants with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities strategically located across various regions in the country.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Database Administrator
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Description
Database Adminiastrator:
- The Database Administrator’s role is to design, install, monitor, maintain, and performance-tune production databases while ensuring high levels of data availability.
- This individual is also responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing database policies and procedures to ensure the integrity and availability of databases and their accompanying software.
Responsibilities
Strategy & Planning:
- Assess and develop long-term strategic goals for production databases in conjunction with data owners and department managers.
- Work with application development staff to develop database architectures, coding standards, and quality assurance policies and procedures.
- Design and implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and data archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of data assets.
Acquisition & Deployment:
- Conduct research and make recommendations on database products, services, protocols, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.
Operational Management:
- Create models and relational entity diagrams for new database development and/or changes to existing ones.
- Install and configure relevant network components to ensure database access as well as database consistency and integrity.
- Respond to and resolve database access and performance issues.
- Monitor database system details within the database, including stored procedures and execution time, and implement efficiency improvements.
- Monitor, optimize, and allocate physical data storage for database systems.
- Plan and coordinate data migrations between systems.
- Develop, implement, and maintain change control and testing processes for modifications to databases.
- Create, or support the creation of, required reports in response to business user needs.
- Perform database transaction and security audits.
- Establish appropriate end-user database access control levels.
- Develop routines for end users to facilitate best practices in database use.
- Manage and/or guide junior members of the team.
- Understand the needs and requirements of the applications using the databases and provide support for these applications.
- Coordinate multiple applications accessing the same database.
- Write and debug lines of SQL code for application development.
Position Requirements
Formal Education & Certification:
- A minimum of a Higher National Diploma (HND) or University Degree in the field of Computer Science or Engineering with a minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience as a DBA.
- Certifications in Database Management and/or Administration from Microsoft or Oracle are required.
Knowledge & Experience:
- Strong understanding of database structures, theories, principles, and practices.
- Working technical experience with designing, building, installing, configuring, and supporting database servers, including Microsoft SQL Servers 2008 to 2022, MySQL, Postgres, and SAP HANA Database.
- Hands-on database tuning and troubleshooting experience.
- Experience with data processing flowcharting techniques.
- Project management experience.
- SQL Scripting experience.
- Programming skills are nice to have.
- Good understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
- Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.
Personal Attributes:
- Leadership ability.
- Business Savvy.
- Political Sensitivity.
- Strong technical documentation skills.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to conduct research into database issues, standards, and products as required.
- Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.
- Highly self-motivated and directed.
- Keen attention to detail.
- Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
- Strong customer service orientation.
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Deadline: 31st January, 2024.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should
Click here to apply online
Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted.
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