Senior Systems Engineer (DBA)

SriLankan Airlines Ltd, the National Carrier of Sri Lanka operates with a network of destinations throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Australia. The Airline has a strong presence in the Maldives and Southern India. SriLankan is a member of the ‘oneworld’ alliance. SriLankan IT Systems drives the airline’s IT strategy through digital transformation, technology adoption, data modeling, 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. Award-winning SriLankan IT team is seeking a dynamic individual to join as a Senior Systems Engineer (DBA). The individual is responsible for Administration of large and complex enterprise server/database setup in the airline comprising diverse server infrastructure and multitude corporate databases.Contribute to IT infrastructure projects competently and carryout assigned work in design, implementation, maintenance and support of Oracle, MSSQL & other Database Administration (DBA) services to meet or exceed set targets. Maintain IT infrastructure and Application System requirements to operate business applications to its 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 fulfill 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 down times. Carry out scheduled monitoring tasks attributed to 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 with version control, proper documentation following company standards, related to all database administration functions including system diagrams, flow charts, hardware configurations, troubleshooting procedure 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 fulfill the requirements demanded by application systems. Requirements Bachelor's Degree* in 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 etc.) OR Full professional qualification equivalent to NVQ Level 07 with 04 years post qualifying experience in a relevant discipline. Be a Sri Lankan citizen. The upper age limit should be 35 years as of 01st June 2026, which is the closing date. Employment will be offered on fixed term contract. We are an equal opportunity organization. Influencing will be a reflection of unsuitability. Please note that we will correspond with you within a month of closing the advertisement in the event your application is shortlisted for consideration.