Database Administrator at Xpress Payment Solutions Limited

Xpress Payment Solutions Limited, established in 2016 as a Private Company Limited by Shares, focuses on offering expertise in designing, implementing, and delivering platforms for Electronic Payments, Collections, Bills Payment, and Funds Disbursement. Operating as a shared infrastructure, our services encompass payment transaction switching, transaction processing, and the deployment and management of Point of Sale (POS) systems. Through these endeavors, we contribute to facilitating efficient and secure financial transactions.

Title: Database Administrator

Location: Lagos

Employment type: Full-Time

About the job

• The successful candidate for this role will ensure that the Database is maintained and monitored for effective performance, carry out on-going system maintenance to support the efficient day-day running of the organization’s current and future business in both Linux and Windows environments.

Responsibilities
Database Administration:

• Develop and enforce database standards, guidelines and operational policies and procedures.
• Review physical structures and migration plans.
• Review necessary storage media with System Administrator.
• Review SQL performance and Tuning.
• Reviewing application’s access to the database structures
• Review, where required, the purge/archive criteria.
• Develop backs and recovery plan adhering to risks policies.
• Assist in developing purge/archive criteria and procedures for historical application data.
• Monitor and tune memory usage for Oracle databases.
• Implement, maintain, and test backup & recovery strategies.
• Create instances and databases with appropriate initialization parameters and database structures (i.e., datafiles, rollback segments, tablespaces, etc.)
• Review and monitor system and instance resources to insure continuous database operations (i.e., database storage, memory, CPU, network usage, and I/O contention.
• Developing & maintaining naming standards for database objects such as tablespaces, tables, indexes & views.

Qualifications

• B.Sc Degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering or any other related discipline.
• 2 – 3 years’ experience as a Database Administrator. IT certification and database knowledge and programming language will be an added advantage.
• Technical Skills: Oracle 19c, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, Linux, ETL, SSIS, SSRS
• Experience in both Linux and Windows Environment.

Deadline: Not Specified.

How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.