SENIOR DATABASE ENGINEER AT STIVLON CONSULTING

About Company:

Stivlon Consulting is your strategic partner in building high-performance teams and unlocking individual potential. We are passionate about finding the perfect fit—the talented individuals who elevate your company and the fulfilling career paths that ignite professional growth.

Job Description:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable database architectures
• Manage and optimize relational and/or NoSQL databases in production environments
• Perform advanced query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning
• Ensure high availability, replication, backup, and disaster recovery strategies
• Implement database security, access controls, and compliance best practices
• Monitor database performance, capacity, and reliability
• Collaborate with application and DevOps teams on schema design and data access patterns
• Lead database migrations, upgrades, and version changes
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex database-related production issues
• Document database architecture, standards, and operational procedures
• Mentor junior engineers and enforce database best practices

Requirements:

• Strong expertise in SQL and relational database design
• Hands-on experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server
• Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB, etc.)
• Deep understanding of indexing strategies, query execution plans, and data modeling
• Experience implementing replication, sharding, and clustering
• Familiarity with Linux environments and scripting
• Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows
• Experience with cloud-managed databases (RDS, Cloud SQL, Aurora, etc.)
• Knowledge of database automation and Infrastructure as Code tools
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)
• Exposure to data warehousing and analytics workloads
• Understanding of data privacy, compliance, and security standards
• Experience supporting high-traffic or mission-critical systems

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 6+ years of professional experience working with databases in production environments

Salary

Application Closing Date: 26th December, 2025

Application Instructions:

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV / Resume to: stivlonjobs@gmail.com using "Senior Database Engineer – Abuja" as the subject of the email.