RwandAir Ltd is the flag carrier airline of Rwanda. It operates domestic and international services to East Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, Europe and the Middle East from its main base at Kigali International Airport. Our mission is to provide unsurpassed, safe, and reliable services in air transportation, including strategically linking Rwanda with the outside world while ensuring a fair return on investment. As part of the expansion strategy, we are looking for interested, qualified, and competent candidates to fill the following position:

Job Title: Database Engineer

Reports to: Manager Software Services

Department: IT

Location: Kigali, Rwanda (Head Office)

Job Purpose

The Database Engineer is responsible for keeping RwandAir databases available, secure, well performing and recoverable. These databases support our revenue management, engineering and maintenance (TRAX), flight and crew operations (AIMS and WBHUB), baggage reconciliation, quality and safety, finance, and the applications developed in house by Software Services. Most of our databases run on Oracle, and we are moving them to Oracle Linux KVM on Oracle servers. The jobholder will take an active part in this migration, look after the new environment once it is live, and make sure we stay within our Oracle licences. We also run SQL Server and some open source databases, which the jobholder will support

WORKING CONDITIONS

Normal office hours, with on-call duty on a rotation basis. Planned maintenance is usually done at night or over the weekend to avoid disturbing flight operations.

How to Apply

An application letter addressed to the Chief HR & Administration Officer;
Recent Curriculum Vitae;
Copies of Notarized Degree/Diploma certificates
Relevant certificates;
Copies of academic papers;
A photocopy of the Passport/National ID;
Three referees

The deadline for submitting application documents (Only PDF Format) is October 20th, 2026. Please apply via the link: https://erecruitment.rwandair.com/.

Database Engineer - Africa

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