Database Administrator at Seven Up Bottling Company

Seven-Up Bottling Company Ltd 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

Job Brief

• 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:

• Candidates should possess 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.

Application Closing Date
31st January, 2026.