Database Administrator at Unified Payment Services Limited (UP)

UP otherwise known as Unified Payment Services Limited is Nigeria’s premier Payments & Financial Technology company founded in 1997 by a consortium of leading Nigerian banks. UP® 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.

In line with our growth strategy propelled by our various innovative products and ownership of different technologies, we seek to recruit talented individuals who are seeking a long term career with our organization for a period not less than 5 years for the position below:

Job Title: Database Administrator

Location: Nigeria

Job Details

Database administrations and security managements on windows and UNIX platform
Daily database backup for disaster recovery purposes and data life- cycle management.
Database instances and tuning at regular defined interval as pro-agreed with business.
Database critical patch updates at defined intervals according to Organizational policy.
Real-time data replication between primary and standby databases.
Database events/performance reviews.
Incident and Problem manager for all database related events.
Business continuity for Enterprise services that use a database
Review of routine task, administration of supporting software, database reporting.
Storage and capacity planning ibr all databases, storage and computing resources.
Research emerging database technology.
Datacentre virtualization and consolidation for license optimization and cost reduction