Database Administrators at Globacom Nigeria Limited

Globacom Limited is Nigeria's Second National Operator with license covering GSM, Broadband, and Gateway Services. The company also has subsidiaries in the Republic of Benin, Ghana and other West African Countries. In its quest to further strengthen and expand operations, the Company desires to recruit experienced and highly skilled individuals to fill some positions in the Information Systems Department.

We are currently recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Database Administrators

Ref: DBA
Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Administration and Maintenance of OSS, BSS and Corporate Databases.
• Perform database backup and export of the dump files.
• Verify enough resources for acceptable performance.
• Support reports generations needed by MIS unit.
• Users Administration and management.
• Monitor and optimize system performance
• Ensure proper documentation of any changes.
• Create primary objects (tables, views, indexes) and primary database storage structures (table space) for applications.
• Carry out impact analysis of any changes made on the database.

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and any other related field.
• Relevant postgraduate degree will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of ten (10) years database administration experience in Telecoms Domain.
• Good understanding of Database Administration and maintenance (Oracle and MSSQL)
• Expertise in Oracle 10g or later, SQL Server DB, MySQL, PL/SQL, Oracle RAC, Oracle forms or related area.
• Good experience in performance turning at servers and application level, high availability solutions, setting up alerts and alarms.
• Good knowledge of Shell scripting, cloning, data guard, SQL, database scheme and UNIX environment.

Application Closing Date
22nd October, 2013

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their resumes, possibly with a scanned passport photograph to: [email protected] using the reference of the position as the subject of their mail.

Note: All applications will be treated strict confidence and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.