Database Engineer (Multi Platform) at ITH Holdings

IT Horizons Ltd is a company with diverse talents and skills in existing, recent, and upcoming technologies worldwide. We are a team of young, vibrant, ambitious, but experienced professionals who deal with everything relating to technologies, especially information and communication technologies (ICT). In addition, we have the ability to update with the latest trends and requirements of our esteemed clients. Our company, established in 2010, has been driven by innovations and excellence, and with its rapid rate of success and customers’ requirements, we were fully incorporated into a private limited company in 2012 with the aim of helping organizations in achieving their goals by providing optimum technological solutions while reducing the total cost of ownership.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Database Engineer (Multi Platform)

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• Database Engineer with strong presales expertise, supporting database modernization, cloud migrations, HA/DR architectures, and platform selection across SQL, NoSQL, and cloud database offerings. Adept at presenting solutions, preparing RFP responses, designing architectures, and guiding customers through database transformation journeys. This includes—but is not limited to—Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, NoSQL engines (MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB/Cosmos DB), and cloud‑native database services.
• He/She will be responsible for growing the database services portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical discovery and requirements analysis
• Architecture design for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL
• RFP/RFQ responses, solution documentation, and BOM creation
• Database modernization assessments and cloud migration proposals
• Conducting customer demos and POCs
• TCO/ROI analysis for database consolidation/migration

Job Requirements
Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

Experience (Required):

• 3–6+ years of hands-on experience in at least two major database engines:
  • Oracle (11g–19c), SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB.
• Experience with backup/restore strategies, HA/DR, monitoring, performance optimization, and automation.
• Experience migrating workloads from on‑prem to cloud OR between DB engines.

Experience (Preferred / Nice-to-have):

• Experience with NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Ansible) and scripting (Python/Bash/PowerShell).
• Exposure to container platforms (Docker/K8S).

Certifications (Preferred):

• Oracle OCP, SQL Server certifications, and PostgreSQL certifications.
• Azure DP‑300, AWS Data Analytics/Database Specialty.

Key Experience:

• Supported sales teams with database migration strategy sessions
• Presented DB performance optimization approaches to enterprise customers
• Designed HA/DR architectures for mission‑critical systems
• Assisted with database sizing, licensing alignment, and cloud migration cost models
• Produce database HLDs/LLDs, SOPs, and operational documentation.
• Participate in presales (scoping, effort estimation, BOMs, presentations).
• Drive continuous tuning of database service offerings, SLAs, and managed services.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and administer Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL engines across on‑prem and cloud environments.
• Implement and support HA/DR architectures (Oracle DG/Active DG, SQL AlwaysOn, PostgreSQL streaming replication, MySQL clusters, cloud-native redundancy).
• Design and execute backup/restore, recovery tests, and runbooks across all platforms.
• Manage and optimize cloud-native databases (Azure SQL, Managed Instance, Amazon RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB).
• Lead database migrations from on‑prem → cloud, cloud → cloud, or cross‑engine migrations.

Application Closing Date
12th June, 2026. 

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@ithorizonsgroup.com using the job title as the subject of the mail.