Database Administrator

About GTR Group

Grand Technology Resources - GTR is the leading Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Solution Company specialized in IT application, Infrastructure solutions and integrating technology into business strategy and business process. Here at GTR we help business, government institutions, and private organizations to gain competitive advantages and achieve their goals with our ICT Solutions & Services. Headquartered in Kabul Afghanistan, GTR was previously Malaysian-Afghan owned company, but as per the vision of our CEO and President Mr. Mirwais Alizai, the company was transferred to the Afghan-Malaysian proprietorship and currently it is a multi – million dollar industrial leader company with physical presence in Afghanistan, Malaysia, UAE, South Korea and expanding. For more information on company background please visit company website at www.gtr.com.my

Job Summary

The Database Administrator will be responsible for the design, implementation, support and maintenance of oracle databases at our customer sites. This role also includes architecting, building and scaling databases for future data growth and capacity. He/she will also be responsible for security, performance and availability of data to authorized users.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Creates and maintains all databases required for development, testing and production usage.

• Performs the capacity planning required to create and maintain the databases. The Database Administrator works closely with system administration staff because computers often have applications or tools on them in addition to the Oracle Databases.

• Performs ongoing tuning of the database instances.

• Install new versions of the Oracle RDBMS and its tools and any other tools that access the Oracle database. 

• Plans and implements backup and recovery of the Oracle database.

• Controls migrations of programs, database changes, reference data changes and menu changes through the development life cycle.

• Implements and enforces security for all of the Oracle Databases. 

• Performs database re-organizations as required to assist performance and ensure maximum uptime of the database.

• Puts standards in place to ensure that all application design and code is produced with proper integrity, security and performance. The Database Admin will perform views on the design and code frequently to ensure the site standards are being adhered to.

• Evaluates releases of Oracle and its tools, and third party products to ensure that the site is running the products that are most appropriate. Planning is also performed by the Database Administrator, along with the application developers and System administrators, to ensure that any new product usage or release upgrade takes place with minimal impact.

• Provides technical support to application development teams. The Database Administrator is usually the point of contact for Oracle RDBMS. 

• Enforces and maintains database constraints to ensure integrity of the database.

• Administers all database objects, including tables, clusters, indexes, views, sequences, packages and procedures. 

• Assists with impact analysis of any changes made to the database objects.

• Troubleshooting of problems regarding the databases, applications and development tools.

• Create new database users as required.

• Manage sharing of resources amongst applications.

• The Database Administrator has ultimate responsibility for the physical database design. 

Job Requirements

• A good knowledge of the operating system(s) particularly Solaris 10 and 11
• A good knowledge of physical database design
• Ability to perform both Oracle and operating system performance monitoring and the necessary adjustments.
• Be able to provide a strategic database direction for the organization.
• Excellent knowledge of Oracle backup and recovery scenarios.
• Good skills in all Oracle tools.
• A good knowledge of Oracle security management.
• A good knowledge of how Oracle acquires and manages resources.
• Sound knowledge of the applications at your site.
• Experience and knowledge in migrating code, database changes, data and menus through the various stages of the development life cycle.
• A good knowledge of the way Oracle enforces data integrity.
• A sound knowledge of both database and program code performance tuning.
• A DBA should possess a sound understanding of the business.
• A DBA should have sound communication skills with management, development teams, vendors, systems administrators and other related service providers.
• At least five years of full-time progressive DBA experience with Oracle certifications such as OCP.

Submission Guideline

Applicants who meet the above requirements should submit their updated curriculum vitae (CV)/ Resume along with letter of motivation to (hr@gtr.com.my).

Please Mention specific Job Title in subject of your E-mail otherwise your Email will not be considered.

Note: only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further recruitment process.

Functional Area

Information Technology

Countries

Submission Email

hr@gtr.com.my

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