Data Center Administrator at Unified Payments Services Limited

Unified Payment Services Limited is Nigeria’s premier Payments & Financial Technology company that operates as a shared infrastructure for the banking community in Nigeria and Payments Service Provider within and outside Nigeria, with a vision to be the most preferred e-payment service provider in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Center Administrator

Location: Lagos

Job Objectives

• The DBA will be responsible for the implementation, configuration, maintenance, and performance of critical ORACLE, POSTGRESQL and SQL Server RDBMS systems and in some case, additional database types like MySQL, to ensure the availability and consistent performance of our corporate applications. This is a “hands-on” position requiring solid technical skills, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Staff will be responsible for the development and sustainment of the database and data Warehouse, ensuring its operational readiness (security, health and performance), executing data loads, and performing data modeling in support of multiple development teams. The data warehouse supports an enterprise application suite of program management tools. Must be capable of working independently and collaboratively.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage ORACLE, POSTGRESQL and SQL Server databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems.
• Configure and maintain database servers and processes, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
• Apply data modelling techniques to ensure development and implementation support efforts meet integration and performance expectations
• Independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes
• Assist developers with complex query tuning and schema refinement.
• Provide 24x7 support for critical production systems.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.
• Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members.

Job Requirements
Qualifications:

• A minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or its equivalent (Higher Dip./B.Eng/B.Tech/BSc. in Computer Science/Information Technology
• Experience: 2-6 years’ post NYSC experience.

Key Competencies:

• Good knowledge of ORACLE, POSTGRESQL and MS SQL Server Administration experience required.
• Experience with Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
• Experience with backups, restores and recovery models.
• Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server.
• Knowledge of Oracle data guard technology and role switching operations.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL replication and failover process data guard technology and role switching operations.
• Experience working with Windows server, including Active Directory.
• Experience working with Oracle Linux operating system.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Flexible, team player, “get-it-done” personality.
• Ability to organize and plan work independently.
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to multi-task and context-switch effectively between different activities and teams.
• Good knowledge of scripting.
• Basic knowledge of storage and its operation ability.

Application Closing Date
20th June, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: ademuyiwa.adetunji@up-ng.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.