Manulife is seeking a highly skilled Senior Database Engineer to define architecture standards and design, automate, and operate enterprise-scale database platforms supporting critical applications across Enterprise Technology Services (ETS). The role focuses on reliability, performance, resiliency, security, and operational excellence across cloud and hybrid environments. Distinct from traditional Database Administration and Data Engineering, this role develops and evolves database platform capabilities, standards, automation, and engineering practices.

Partnering with application, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and security teams, you will deliver scalable, secure, highly available, observable, and cost-efficient database services. This is an opportunity to shape enterprise database strategy, advance modernization, and deliver engineering-led solutions for business-critical platforms at scale.

Database Platform Engineering: Design, build, and maintain enterprise database platforms across cloud and hybrid environments. Define and implement database standards, architecture patterns, and engineering best practices. Lead database technology evaluations and recommend platform solutions aligned with business requirements.

Develop and maintain database roadmaps supporting modernization and cloud transformation initiatives. Support relational and NoSQL database technologies including PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Cosmos DB, and Redis.

Establish Recovery Time

Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for critical database systems. Perform disaster recovery testing and resilience assessments.

Performance Engineering: Identify performance bottlenecks and implement tuning recommendations. Analyze workload patterns, query performance, storage utilization, memory consumption, and database resource contention.



Conduct capacity planning and growth forecasting. Develop proactive performance engineering frameworks to predict and prevent service degradation.

Operational Excellence: Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and problem management activities. Lead major incident investigations involving database platforms. Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across database engineering initiatives. 7+ years of experience in Database Engineering, Database Administration, Platform Engineering, or related technical roles. ~ Strong expertise in one or more enterprise database technologies, including PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, or Cosmos DB. ~ Advanced SQL and database performance tuning expertise. ~ Experience operating and managing databases within Azure and/or AWS cloud environments. ~ Experience developing automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar scripting languages. ~ Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and root cause analysis skills. ~ Azure and/or AWS cloud certifications.

Database certifications such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, or MongoDB.

Experience driving FinOps initiatives and database cost optimization strategies.

Experience with predictive analytics, machine learning, or capacity management solutions.

Experience with database observability, monitoring, and performance management platforms.

Experience supporting cloud-native database services and modern data platform architectures.



Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and operational excellence practices. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical and business partners. We'll recognize and support you in a flexible workplace where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

Le poste annoncé correspond à une vacance existante. 113,000.00 CAD - $163,000.00 CAD Les employés ont également la possibilité de participer à des programmes incitatifs et de recevoir une rémunération liée à la performance de l’entreprise et des individus. Le salaire réel variera selon les conditions du marché local, la région géographique et les facteurs propres au poste, tels que les connaissances, les compétences, les qualifications, l’expérience et la formation. Manuvie offre aux employés admissibles une vaste gamme d’avantages sociaux personnalisables, notamment une assurance soins médicaux, soins dentaires, santé mentale, soins de la vue, invalidité de courte et de longue durée, assurance vie et assurance DMA, assurance adoption, de maternité de substitution et de soins médicaux non urgents ainsi que des programmes d’aide aux employés et leur famille.

Nous proposons également aux employés admissibles différents régimes d’épargne-retraite (y compris des régimes de rente et un programme international d’actionnariat assortie de cotisations patronales de contrepartie) ainsi que des ressources en matière d’éducation et de conseils financiers. Nous utilisons des technologies de données et d’analytique, telles que l’intelligence artificielle (IA), ainsi que des outils de traitement automatisé pour analyser et traiter les renseignements que vous nous fournissez ou des tiers nous transmettent dans le cadre du processus de demande.

📌 Senior database engineer (Ontario)
🏢 Société Financière Manuvie
📍 Ontario