MTN Nigeria – The leader in telecommunications in Nigeria, and a part of a diverse community in Africa and the Middle East, our brand is instantly recognisable. It is through our compelling brand that we are able to attract the right talents who we carefully nurture by continuously improving our employment offerings even beyond reward and recognition.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Engineer – Database Administrator

Job ID: 7032
Location: Victoria Island, Lagos

Job Summary

• A Team Lead, Database Administrator (DBA) ensures the availability, security, integrity, and optimal performance of MoMoPSB’s database platforms that power high-volume, real-time payments.
• The DBA defines the database strategy, engineers resilient architectures, and executes day-to-day administration to meet business, regulatory, and cost objectives.

Key Responsibilities 

• Own the multi‑year database roadmap: engine selection, cloud/on‑prem posture, managed services, and standards.
• Design and govern HA/DR architectures meeting defined SLOs, RPO/RTO for Tier‑0 payment systems.
• Embed security & compliance by design (PCI DSS, CBN PSB, NDPR, ISO 27001): encryption, segregation, least privilege, logging and retention.
• Establish observability strategy (SLOs, error budgets, performance baselines, telemetry).
• Plan capacity and cost: licensing optimization, storage tiering, reservations/commitments.
• Plan/execute major upgrades and migrations with near‑zero downtime; institute schema versioning (Flyway/Liquibase) in CI/CD.
• Implement robust backup & recovery strategies including immutable/WORM copies and quarterly restore drills.
• Engineer performance: indexing, partitioning, query tuning, connection management, and workload management.
• Harden security: RBAC, PAM/MFA, key management, secrets rotation, audit and access reviews.
• Enable data integration: CDC/ETL to analytics, fraud systems, and regulatory reporting with data quality controls.
• Maintain vendor relationships and optimize licenses/support contracts.
• Provision, configure, and patch databases; manage users/roles; maintain schemas and jobs.
• Monitor availability, replication lag, locks/deadlocks, storage growth; triage and resolve incidents.
• Execute backups (full/incremental) and validate restores; maintain offsite/air‑gapped copies.
• Support releases and change management; review SQL changes and advise on best practices.
• Maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, SOPs, and compliance evidence.

Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field.
• Relevant certifications are an advantage (e.g., Oracle OCP, Microsoft DP‑300/DP‑900, AWS/Azure database certifications, ITIL).

Experience:

• 3–7 years hands‑on DBA experience in high‑availability, high‑throughput environments (financial services/telco preferred).
• Track record delivering HA/DR, performance tuning, security hardening, and major version upgrades/migrations.
• Experience operating in cloud (AWS/Azure) using services such as RDS/Aurora or Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• Expertise with at least two engines: PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL; familiarity with NoSQL (MongoDB/Cassandra) a plus.
• Proficiency in SQL, PL/pgSQL, T‑SQL, PL/SQL; query optimization, indexing, partitioning.
• Replication & HA (Always On/AG, Data Guard, Streaming/Logical replication).
• Backup/Recovery (RMAN, pgBackRest, PITR, snapshot strategies).
• Security (TLS, TDE, RBAC, tokenization/masking, auditing) and key management (KMS/Key Vault).
• Observability (pg_stat_statements, AWR, Extended Events, Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch/Azure Monitor).
• Automation with Terraform/Ansible; scripting in Bash/Python; schema migration tools (Liquibase/Flyway).

Application Closing Date
3rd March, 2026; 10:00 PM.