Senior Oracle Database Administrator

Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY):

03/12/2026

Worker Type:

Permanent

Language(s) Required:

English

Term Duration (in months):

Salary Range (plus eligible to receive a performance based incentive, applicable to position) :

$105,145 - $142,255

Why FCC?

At FCC, we’re proud to be 100% invested in Canadian agriculture and food. As a federal Crown corporation, we provide financing, knowledge resources and business management software to over 103,000 customers nationwide.

Here’s what you can expect when you join our team:

• Competitive total rewards packages: market-aligned and performance-based salary and incentive programs, flexible and comprehensive group benefit and savings plans, and well-being support through benefits and wellness programs

• Purpose-driven work: We build strong relationships, share knowledge and support the people who feed the world

• Growth: Learning and development opportunities to help you thrive

• Hybrid work options

How you’ll make an impact

As a Database Administrator (DBA), you’ll support, maintain and modernize our enterprise database environment – ensuring the performance, availability, security and reliability of critical database systems while working closely with application teams, architects and operations. As a senior member of the team, you’ll bring deep expertise in Oracle database administration and contribute to our AWS cloud journey, supporting Oracle workloads in cloud environments. You’ll act as a technical leader, helping guide best practices, influence technical decisions, and mentor team members while remaining hands‑on with complex technical challenges. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior DBA who enjoys hands-on technical work, problem-solving and contributing to modernization initiatives in a collaborative, Agile environment. If you have a passion for keeping mission-critical platforms available, performant and recoverable, this could be the role for you.

What you’ll do

• Manage work queue and daily work distribution within the DBA team
• Provide coaching and mentoring to junior colleagues
• Partner with architects on key initiatives to modernize and maintain database performance
• Perform diagnostics, testing and troubleshooting of database and operating system issues to ensure stable and reliable database services
• Monitor database environments, act on system alerts and respond to performance, availability and stability issues in a timely manner
• Execute database migrations, patching, upgrades, backups and recovery, reorganizations, and data movement activities
• Manage and resolve business-as-usual service requests, incidents and operational tickets through established ITIL processes
• Identify, analyze and remediate database performance and availability issues
• Support database-related deployment and change activities, ensuring controlled, reliable releases into production environments
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide support outside of regular working hours when DBA expertise is required

What you’ll bring to the team

Required qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or information technology
• Minimum eight years of experience in database administration (or an equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Minimum eight years of Oracle Database Support & Postgres Administration experience
• Minimum eight years of AWS RDS experience (including Aurora, option groups and parameter groups)
• Experience with ITIL processes – incident, change and service request management procedures
• Knowledge of AWS for databases and networking
• Knowledge of performance monitoring, disaster recovery, failover, high availability, archive/transaction log management, AWS DMS, auditing, and backup solutions
• Ability to configure SSL encryption, AWS IAM authentication and cost optimization
• Experience with Redshift and Oracle Enterprise
• Experience leading or mentoring team members, supporting effective work prioritization, sharing knowledge and collaborating within and across teams

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced SQL knowledge is an asset, but this role is focused on administration
• SQL Server experience

Not sure you meet every requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway.

You belong here
At FCC, we’re committed to creating an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace – one that reflects the communities where we live, work and play. Our team is made stronger through diversity, and we’re dedicated to building a workforce that brings together a range of backgrounds, abilities and perspectives.

We encourage qualified applicants to apply, including members of these four employment equity groups:
• Indigenous Peoples
• Members of visible minority groups
• Persons with disabilities
• Women

Accessibility and accommodations

To support an inclusive and accessible candidate experience, we encourage anyone needing an adjustment or accommodation during any stage of the recruitment process to email us at: -fac.ca. An HR partner will respond and work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation. Information received in relation to accommodation requests will not impact hiring decisions.