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Database Consultant at TalentUp Africa

TalentUp AfricaLagos, Nigeria Data and Artificial Intelligence
Full Time
TalentUp Africa uses quizzes and games, all based on specific lessons, to identify candidates’ capabilities, skill sets, and personalities. Through app-based games and quizzes, the selection process becomes quicker and more objective - time equals money, and selection of candidates will no longer be coloured by applicant’s, ethnicity, race, age, gender

Job Description

  • In this role, you will employ customer facing skills to represent the company well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, standard methodologies, project management and risk mitigation.
  • You will work closely with the company’s Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams to help ensure the success of project consulting engagements with customers.
  • You will work directly with customers’ business and technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on the understood requirements.
  • You will be required to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment
  • You will analyze on-premises database environments such as Oracle, SQL Server, or other Commercial DB Engines to Open Source Engines like Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL or RedShift, DynamoDB.
  • You will work with customers to migrate their database environments to AWS. This may include, but is not limited to Re-Host , Upgrade/Optimize, Re-Factor to open source database platforms.
  • You will be required to consult for optimal design of database environments, analyzing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance.
  • You will perform relevant Application/Database replatforming (Commercial to Open Source Engines).
  • You will participate in all phases of the SDLC including requirements gathering, business analysis, configuration management and quality control.
  • You will develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems.

Your Profile

Qualification And Experience

  • 5+ years of DBA experience in Oracle, SQL Server, or other commercial/open source database platforms with migrating mission critical database environments from one platform to another.
  • Experience working with high availability, disaster recovery and server tuning strategies including parameters, resources, contention, etc.
  • Experience in Shell/Perl/Python Scripting.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer science or equivalent professional or military experience.
  • Must have two (2) active AWS certifications at the associate, professional or specialty certification offered by Amazon Web Services.
  • Hands-on cloud experience
  • Knowledge of replication technologies such as Oracle GoldenGate, Amazon Database Migration Service, or similar.
  • Experience with mission critical databases across multiple database platforms.
  • Experience in Data Modelling, ETL/ELT workflow management desired & ability to write, tune SQL queries
  • Experience in writing procedural language artifacts: PL/SQL, T-SQL, PL/pgSQL, stored procedures.
  • Experience in AWS Platforms and Service.
  • Experience with Custom/COTS Applications and their implementation/maintenance.
  • Experience with TCP/IP Networking.

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