National Judicial Council (NJC) Recruits Database Administrator

The National Judicial Council has begun a process of designing, developing and acquiring State-of-the-Art Information Systems with the intention of improving the operations of the Nigerian Judiciary through the Computerization of Court Processes and the operations of all Judicial Bodies.

These efforts are in conjunction with local and foreign Development Partners and will entail acquisition, development and Installation of Hardware and software Systems including Oracle technologies (i.e. Oracle Forms, Oracle Database, OAS, Oracle Workflow, WebLogic etc), JAVA, Perl, Python, Linux, Windows Server, MS Visual Studio (NET), Networking Technologies including TCP/IP, WLAN, VPN, MPLS etc. Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com

NJC is seeking suitable candidates with the right qualifications and aptitude to fill the following positions below

Job Title: Database Administrator - NJCDBA

Job Responsibilities

• Under general supervision, design, administer, support, and maintain all databases:
• Deep knowledge of Oracle Database technologies, Strong RAC/clustering experience and Data Guard experience required. Design, development and administration of Oracle databases. Copied from: hotnigerianjobs.com
• Must be able to improve SQL performance results through use of explain plans.
• Ability to diagnose problems and triage/resolve issues across various tiers (application, network, database, server, or storage tiers).
• Performance monitoring, reporting, and tuning of Oracle databases.
• Management and maintenance of back-ups & recovery procedures.
• Installation and maintenance of database server, replication and client environments.
• Reviewing and tuning SQL and PL/SQL code.
• Designing database packages and procedures. Security and access control. Creation and maintenance of SQL queries and routines. Provisioning of (database) development and testing environments.
• Required to deal with complex data models and object relational database mapping, while producing complex reports

Qualification/Experience

• A University Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
• Minimum of 3 years experience of as a DBA; Life-cycle database development utilizing Oracle and Java based technologies.
• Good understanding of the Oracle database, related utilities and tools
• Good understanding of MS-SQL Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com
• A good understanding of the underlying operating systems
• A good knowledge of the physical database design
• Ability to perform both Oracle and operating system performance tuning and monitoring
• Good Knowledge of ALL Database backup and recovery scenarios
• A good knowledge of Oracle security management
• A good knowledge of Oracle Forms and Reports with Oracle lOg or hg (Experience with Functions, Procedures and Packages PL/SQL; SQL; Shell Script Preferred Skills: Developer Tools: Oracle BI Publisher; Oracle Discoverer (Administrator, Desktop, Viewer, and Plus); Oracle Workflow; Oracle JDeveloper(ADF); SQL Loader; etc
• A good knowledge Oracle data integrity
• Sound knowledge of the implemented application systems
• Experience in code migration, database change management and data management through the various stages of the development life cycle
• A sound knowledge of both database and system performance tuning
• Should have sound communication skills with management, development teams, vendors and systems administrators
• Experience with handling multiple projects and deadlines

Application Closing Date
18th February, 2013

Method of Application
All CVs must indicate codes of post applied for at the top-right corner of front page. Applications, CVs and other relevant documents should be submitted, ONLY on soft copies (as attachment in .doc or .pdf file format) to:
[email protected]

Please note that ONLY shortlisted candidates will be contacted by email.