Database Manager - Oracle SME at Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners Limited

Growth  in  Value Alliance  (GV Alliance)  Partners is a business  advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

GVA Partners is also a leading name within the recruitment industry. We have built our reputation on over the years by understanding the markets, businesses and individuals within the markets we work with and this has enabled us to deliver seamless and comprehensive recruitment solutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Database Manager - Oracle SME

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Install, configure, and administer Oracle, MongoDB, MySQL, and Cassandra environments across dev/test/prod.
• Support solution implementation activities including database provisioning, schema setup, user creation, and role-based access control.
• Design and maintain backup and recovery strategies (full/incremental, snapshots, PITR), and execute recovery tests to meet RPO/RTO targets.
• Implement and manage high availability and disaster recovery configurations (e.g., clustering/replication, standby/replica sets, multi-node Cassandra).
• Perform database performance tuning: query optimization, indexing strategies, memory/IO tuning, and capacity planning.
• Monitor databases using enterprise or native tools; define and tune alerts, thresholds, and health checks.
• Manage patching and upgrades for database engines and supporting components with minimal downtime.
• Execute data migration and transformation tasks (export/import, replication-based migration, cutover planning and rollback).
• Enforce security controls: encryption (at rest/in transit), key management integration, auditing, least privilege access, and credential rotation.
• Create and maintain database standards and documentation: runbooks, build guides, operational procedures, architecture diagrams.
• Collaborate with application teams to ensure best practices for connection management, pooling, transaction handling, and resilience.
• Support integration with CI/CD pipelines for database changes (e.g., version-controlled schema changes, controlled deployments).
• Troubleshoot complex incidents including corruption, replication lag, locking/contention, disk/IO bottlenecks, and configuration drift.
• Participate in implementation workshops, readiness reviews, cutover execution, and hypercare/stabilization support.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise requirements for logging, retention, auditing, and change management.
• Provide knowledge transfer to operations/support teams and contribute to post-implementation lessons learned.

Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years post-NYSC professional experience
• Experience working on MSAP DB & VAS programs
• Hands-on experience providing DBA support for MSAP database migration
• Strong experience with database optimization programs
• In-depth knowledge of database performance tuning and optimization
• Experience supporting efforts to consolidate and stabilize test restore environments.

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV in PDF to: faitho@gvapartners.com, tisea@gvapartners.com copying contact@gvapartners.com using the job title as the subject of the mail.