Database Management Officer (DMO0126)

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.

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

• Minimum of 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

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