Information Technology Services Division

Ref. no : C/ITSD/SM/07/24-AP2
 
Major Duties:
The appointee(s) would take up duties in ONE of the following areas:

(a) Database Administrator in the area of Infrastructure Management
     (i)To provide technical support for Oracle / MSSQL / MySQL databases;
     (ii)To perform database design, maintenance, configuration and upgrade;
     (iii)To supervise DBA sub-team for the continual support of database service and database technical solution that meets the VTC’s IT requirements;
     (iv)To monitor, maintain and tune database for improving reliability and performance;
     (v)To develop and implement standards and best practices for database administration; and
     (vi)To assist in the overall planning and coordination of the development in IT infrastructure and other projects with Smart Campus Initiatives.

(b)System Development
     (i)To assist the management in overall planning, development, implementation, and enhancement in IT projects;
     (ii)To lead team members in supporting and maintaining IT services and infrastructure as well as programming and testing with enforcement of the Council’s IT policies and guidelines;
     (iii)To carry out feasibility studies and requirement studies in formulating and enhancing IT solutions;
     (iv)To perform system, workflow, and operation designs; and
     (v)To liaise with various operational units and vendors on IT projects and to ensure the enforcement of the Council’s IT policies and guidelines.

Requirements:

(a)A recognised degree in IT or equivalent with at least 5 years’ relevant work experience;
(b)Solid experience in IT project management;
(c)For Major Duties in (a) Database Administrator in the area of Infrastructure Management, applicants with excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in any of the following aspects will be an advantage:
    (i)Oracle versions 11g / 12c / 19c;
    (ii)Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Oracle Advanced Security; and          
    (iii)Microsoft SQL Server 2019/2022, MySQL.

(d)For Major Duties in (b) System Development, applicants with excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in any of the following aspects will be an advantage:
     (i)Student services such as Mobile app, Lifelong learning, Timetabling, Class Attendance, and student records administration;
     (ii)Student Lifecycle Management such as student admissions, student records and assessment administration;
     (iii)Corporate services such as accounting, finance, and procurement processes;
     (iv)Design and develop ETL processes and data models to support various data integration;
     (v)Hands-on experience in Oracle database, Linux, JAVA, Spring, Spring Boot and RESTful API;
     (vi)No-code development platform (e.g., Power Apps);
     (vii)Experience in a CI/CD pipeline of a large-scale enterprise application in on-premises environment (e.g. Ansible, Docker. GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes & OpenShift, etc); and
     (viii)Preferably having experience on managing API gateway, message queuing system and developing Microservices to improve the efficiency and scalability of IT systems.

(e)Logical thinking and willingness to learn the technology;
(f)Good proficiency in English and Chinese; and
(g)Good supervisory skills, interpersonal skills, self-initiative and be a good team player.
      
Notes:

(1)The post is at the rank of “Senior Officer”.
(2)Applicants with less relevant experience and / or qualification may be considered for the post of Assistant Systems Manager, at the rank of “Officer”.
(3)Applicants with substantial experience and achievements in the relevant field but without the required academic/professional qualifications OR those with exceptional academic/professional qualifications but with less experience may also apply.
(4)Appointees may be required to work irregular hours / outside normal office hours and / or at different work locations on a need basis.
(5)Appointees may be posted to any operational units of the VTC, for example a campus / centre, to carry out similar duties, and have different post titles which are subject to change at the Council’s discretion.

Application Procedures:
Interested applicants should apply for the post via email.  A completed application form [VTC-1 (Rev. 6/2024)], together with a full curriculum vitae, should be sent to vtchrd-job@vtc.edu.hk.
 
Candidates should take note of the following:
(1)  Completed application form (VTC-1) and detailed curriculum vitae (CV) should be combined into one file in PDF format with a file size below 10MB.
(2)  The file should be saved with the applicant’s name as “your surname and given name”, e.g. “CHAN Tai-man.pdf”.
(3)  For the email subject, please cite “Application for the Post of Systems Manager (Ref. No.: C/ITSD/SM/07/24-AP2)”.
(4)  Original and copy of other supporting documents are to be provided at a later stage upon request.
 
Closing date for application: 7 August 2024
 
Applicants not invited for interview within 10 weeks from the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful.
 
The Council reserves the right not to fill the post(s).
 
Personal data collected will be used for recruitment purposes only and will be destroyed 12 months after the completion of the recruitment exercise.

Download Application Form in PDF format