Senior Systems Manager

The Critical Service Engineering team at HKEX is looking for a Senior Systems Manager to oversee database administration activities for critical business systems.

The successful candidate will work with project, application, and infrastructure teams to deliver secure, stable, highly available, and well-performing database services.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and support enterprise database platforms, including Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, and GaussDB.
• Provide database architecture, configuration, and technical advice for projects and BAU activities.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of database administrators and database engineers.
• Maintain database availability, performance, security, and capacity in critical, high-throughput environments.
• Perform database installation, patching, upgrade, migration, backup, recovery, and performance tuning.
• Support high availability, disaster recovery, switchover, failover, and recovery testing.
• Monitor database health, troubleshoot incidents, and resolve database-related problems.
• Define database standards, operating procedures, and technical documentation.
• Automate routine database administration and operational tasks using scripts and tools.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and project teams on database requirements.
• Provide technical guidance and review database deliverables to ensure quality and compliance.

Requirements:

• Degree holder in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a relevant discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in database administration, engineering, or support.
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise relational databases such as Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, or GaussDB.
• Experience in database high availability, backup and recovery, performance tuning, patching, and upgrades.
• Experience in people management.
• Experience in implementing and operating databases in accordance with company compliance, security, and hardening standards.
• Experience in Linux and scripting for database automation, with good troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and teamwork skills.