Job Title: Senior Ingres DBA / Technical Lead

Location: Remote

Client: Higher Education

Duration: Long Term

Required Experience and Skills

- 8+ years of database administration experience with significant hands-on production Ingres DBA experience.
- Strong experience administering and supporting production Ingres databases, including configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, startup, shutdown, and operational support.
- Hands-on experience with Ingres backup, restore, checkpoint, journaling, transaction logs, and database recovery.
- Strong experience with Ingres performance tuning, database health monitoring, and production troubleshooting.
- Robust hands-on experience administering RHEL/Linux in production environments, particularly systems supporting enterprise database workloads.
- Strong knowledge of Linux service and process management, file systems, mounts, storage, permissions, ownership, system logs, and diagnostics.
- Demonstrated experience recovering databases following service, host, storage, or unclean-shutdown failures.
- Experience validating backup integrity, database restoration, disaster recovery, and recovery testing.
- Experience with database replication and journaling in production environments.
- Strong experience with Bash/Shell scripting for Linux and database administration.
- Proven ability to perform cross-layer troubleshooting across Ingres, RHEL/Linux, storage, file systems, services, network dependencies, and application interfaces.
- Experience supporting legacy or partially documented production environments and assessing existing database/OS architecture and dependencies.




- Experience leading critical production incidents, outage triage, technical recovery, and problem resolution.
- Experience developing and maintaining technical documentation, operational procedures, runbooks, architecture documentation, incident reports, and recovery procedures.
- Experience planning and executing shutdown/startup, recovery, outage, and disaster-recovery exercises, including documenting results and corrective actions.
- Ability to provide technical leadership, coordinate infrastructure/application/security teams, and maintain continuity of technical knowledge.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to provide knowledge transfer to technical teams and designated client personnel.

Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience
- Recent Ingres-on-RHEL production experience.
- Experience in higher education, Student Information Systems (SIS), or high-availability administrative systems.
- Experience with Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification.
- Relevant database administration certification.
- Experience coordinating database, infrastructure, application, security, and service-management teams during critical incidents.
- Experience establishing database and host health baselines covering CPU, memory, storage, I/O, processes, services, and logs.
- Experience assessing and documenting Ingres architecture, database instances, RHEL configuration, storage, interfaces, dependencies, and operational procedures.

If this aligns with your experience, please share your updated resume with me at [email protected]

📌 Senior Ingres DBA (Canada)
🏢 BuzzClan
📍 Canada