Database Administrator

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CA$120,000.00 / yr - CA$140,000.00 / yr

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We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator (DBA) who is equally comfortable tuning a 20-year-old database as they are designing resilient, cloud-ready data platforms. You are deeply experienced, constantly learning, and proud of your craft. In this role, you will be the operational owner of our database environment : ensuring stability, performance, security, and recoverability of critical systems. You will also participate in key projects such as migrations, upgrades, cloud adoption, and new application deployments.

Your role and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following :

• Act as the technical owner for enterprise database platforms (on-premises and cloud), including day-to-day administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Manage and optimize databases across legacy and modern technologies (e.g., SQL Server, Raven DB, Cosmos, MySQL / PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, AWS RDS, Progress, etc.).
• Ensure high availability, performance, and capacity through proactive monitoring, tuning, and maintenance (indexing, statistics, partitioning, resource governance, etc.).
• Design, implement, and regularly test backup and recovery strategies, including disaster recovery and failover procedures.
• Maintain strong security and compliance posture : user access management, roles and permissions, data encryption, auditing, and alignment with corporate and regulatory requirements.
• Perform and coordinate regular maintenance activities such as patching, upgrades, and vulnerability remediation with minimal impact to business operations.
• Provide tier-3 support for complex incidents and production issues, including participation in an on-call rotation where required.
• Participate in infrastructure and application projects : new system implementations, database refactoring, consolidations, and modernization initiatives.
• Collaborate with solution architects, developers, and business analysts to design scalable and resilient database solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Lead or support migration efforts from legacy platforms to modern environments (e.g., on-prem to cloud, version upgrades, re-platforming and re-architecture).
• Contribute to the standardization and automation of database operations (e.g., Infrastructure as Code, CI / CD integration, configuration management, scripting).
• Produce and maintain clear documentation : runbooks, topology diagrams, DR procedures, standards, and operational guidelines

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Location : Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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