Senior Systems Engineer - Srilankan Airlines Rathmalana

Job Description

Sri Lankan IT Systems drives the airline’s IT strategy through digital transformation, technology adoption, data modelling, business intelligence, and business continuity. The focus is on transforming business and operational processes, expanding digital passenger reach, and improving customer experience through solutions design, development, and integrations while enhancing airline IT domain knowledge. The award-winning Sri Lankan IT team is seeking a dynamic individual to join as a Senior Systems Engineer (DBA).

The position focuses on the administration of large and complex enterprise server/database setup in the airline comprising diverse server infrastructure and the multitude of corporate databases. Contribute to IT infrastructure projects competently and carry out assigned work in design, implementation, maintenance and support of Oracle, MSSQL & other DBA services to meet or exceed set targets.

Maintain IT infrastructure and Application System requirements to operate business applications to their optimum capacity in line with standard operating systems and RDBMS. Ensure the enterprise database systems are secure as per the industry standards and best practices.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Carry out predefined control procedures to ensure accuracy, integrity, security, and consistency of all system data maintained in databases and Review daily, weekly & monthly performance reports in order to ensure the availability, reliability and business continuity of enterprise server/database setup.
• Ensure infrastructure projects are completed within the planned targets in order to deliver on-time services to customers. Also Provide support and technical inputs in creating, configuring and maintaining infrastructure, databases and database-related logs to fulfil Application System requirements.
• Maintain and follow-up Backup Procedures, Disaster Recovery procedures and system policy implementation when performing database-related job tasks in order to ensure efficient error/fault recovery with minimum downtime.
• Carry out scheduled monitoring tasks attributed to the performance of databases & logical data structures and render necessary actions to improve efficiency and resource utilization as well as to ensure that pre-defined levels of availability and performance targets are maintained.
• Ensure targets are met in incident handling, request handling, change request handling and problem management.
• Create, update and maintain version control, and proper documentation following company standards, related to all database administration functions including system diagrams, flow charts, hardware configurations, troubleshooting procedures and the like, in order to achieve quick response times when attending to a problem or investigating/tracing back frequently occurring problem areas.
• Provide feedback/technical inputs for design and execution of upgrade plans, improvements to work procedures etc. to increase user confidence and satisfaction in the corporate Database Management system.
• Co-ordinate with Application Development staff and assist in planning and providing data transfer facilities to fulfil the requirements demanded by application systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree * in a relevant field from a recognized University with a minimum of 02-year post qualifying Relevant Experience (* Engineering, Computer Science, General Science with Mathematics, Management Information Systems, Applied Statistics)
  OR
• Full professional qualification equivalent to NVQ Level 7 with 4 years post-qualifying experience in a relevant discipline.

Age to be not more than 35 years as of 20th December 2024 which is the closing date.

Be a Sri Lankan citizen.

Influencing will be a reflection of unsuitability.

We are an equal-opportunity Organization.

Employment will be offered on a fixed-term contract.

Please note that if your application is shortlisted for consideration, we will contact you within a month of closing the advertisement.