Database Engineer at Hazon Holdings

Hazon Holdings is a continually growing and leading conglomerate domiciled in Africa. We specialize in raising standards through our synergy of diverse business units. We are core believers in driving people, processes and businesses to attain peak productivity in given fields through steadfastness and ultimate discipline.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Database Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Would you like to work in a collaborative environment at a state of the art facility in Lagos?
• Then join our Hazon Holdings team of smart people solving problems that make the world a safer place and help to secure our great nation!
• Come support those who provide us with all the freedoms we enjoy. Our new courtyard has amenities that make work and life balance.
• Hazon Holdings is looking for a candidate to join our world-class innovative team as a Database (DB) Engineer.
• The Database Engineer is responsible for all aspects of the design, development and delivery of data and database solutions.

Duties

• Design, develop and deliver / implement data solutions to include: architecture design, prototyping of concepts to proof of concept, development of standards, design and development of test plans, code and module design, development and testing, data solution debugging, design and implementation of a solution that follows efficient design techniques and development that meets and exceeds the intent of the design of the data solution.
• Effectively manage day-to-day tasks / activities in coordination with a team of developers to effectively meet the deliverables and schedule of a data solution component within a larger application project.
• Lend support to various business and technology teams as necessary during design, development and delivery to ensure solid, scalable, robust solutions.
• Support and maintain data and database systems to meet business delivery specifications and needs.
• Maintains database results by setting and enforcing standards and controls.
• Prepares for database expansion by studying plans and requirements; advising senior technical management; coordinating design and programming.
• Upgrades hardware and software by assessing transaction processing and database production options.
• Maintains database performance by troubleshooting problems.
• Accomplishes platform upgrades and improvements by supervising system programming.
• Secures database by developing policies, procedures, and controls.
• Migrate the databases and data to the Cloud
• Design, develop, and document processes, procedures, and tools - for diagnosing and fixing known bugs and problems; for improving efficiency; and for automating common tasks.
• Perform database capacity and usage planning
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Applications teams on efforts to improve database security, performance and availability
• Ensure all migration related incidents are recorded timely, accurately and prioritized
• Document, maintain and implement database standards and practices
• Assist with evaluating cloud databases, support documentation, and provide input into standard operating procedures
• Resolve incidents, issues, and problems, alone and through collaboration with other team members
• Configure database continuous integration and delivery pipelines
• Automate database deployments and version control
• Accomplishes information systems and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

Qualifications
Who We're Looking for:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other quantitative field
• Proven technical knowledge in SQL
• Security+ Certification
• Minimum of 3 years of database development experience
• Minimum of 4 years of experience as a Database engineer
• Experience with DDL scripts to create, maintain, and upgrade database schemas
• Experience with SQL and PL/SQL to perform complex queries, data manipulations and data migrations
• Experience writing and maintaining shell scripts; additional experience with Perl, Python, Ruby is helpful
• Experience with database optimization, performance tuning, backup and restoration, table space allocation/management, managing the overall health and status of the database, managing the database schema, creating triggers and storage procedures, monitoring the Oracle alert logs and resolving database-related issues
• Practiced in integration of COTS products in implementing successful customer-driven solutions.
• Experience with RAC

Desired Skills:

• Experience with database products: Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc. is highly desired
• Experience with Oracle products such as Real Application Clusters, Data Guard, Application Server, Oracle Text, Label Security, Replication and Streams
• Experience developing and maintaining data models
• Experience with model-driven development and data modeling using tools such as ERwin, SQL Developer Data Modeler, Oracle Designer, Sybase PowerDesigner
• Have working knowledge of J2EE architecture and an understanding of object-oriented modeling languages
• Experience working with Java developers on database data access layers using JDBC, Hibernate, JPA, etc.
• Experience in system accreditation using proxy users, virtual private database technology and label security
• Familiar with current database related vendor products and current research directions.
• Familiar with technologies related to high volume data handling and ingestion and high data rate extraction with integrity checking and indexing

Application Closing Date
5th August, 2019.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment@hazonholdings.com using the "Job Title" as the subject of the mail.