About The Role
Our client is seeking an experienced database administrator to join the team that operates the SaaS platform.

We will be responsible for the reliability and performance of the databases and data processes that deliver service to their clients. You will deploy, monitor, optimize and troubleshoot issues with code and infrastructure related to our large-scale databases and data processes. As part of the Platform Operations team, you’ll collaborate with colleagues in Infrastructure, Product Development, Analytics and other teams.

This is an active posting for an open position. Candidates must be available to work in a hybrid setting in Downtown Toronto, 2-3 days/week.

Key Responsibilities

Monitor, optimize, and resolve issues related to the reliability, performance, and security of large-scale databases and complex data processes

Partner with Infrastructure team in monitoring, provisioning and right-sizing of servers and storage

Collaborate with Product Development team on enhancements and resolving nonfunctional issues: provide insights from UAT and Production environments; share expertise in optimizing SQL and physical aspects of databases

Proactively identify and advocate for improvements to technology and methods used to deploy, configure, and maintain databases and data processes

Effectively communicate business benefits, costs, and implications of proposed changes to non-technical and more senior colleagues

Contribute to SQL coding standards and conduct code reviews





Create and maintain technical documentation

Knowledge and Skills

Expertise in physical schema and infrastructure for databases and data processing: compute and storage for IaaS and PaaS resources in Azure; partitioning and indexing of data

Advanced SQL coding and applied knowledge of relational database engines, including Microsoft SQL Server and Azure data services

Experienced in database maintenance, performance monitoring, and debugging

Apply DevOps practices to automate deployment of databases and ETL/ELT components

Knowledge of data warehousing is desirable

Objectively assess potential solutions by balancing business value and technical complexity

Highly organized and able to balance parallel tasks

Collaborate effectively with colleagues that span a broad range of roles

Effectively communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical colleagues

Qualifications

Proven success as database administrator/engineer for large-scale databases and complex data processes

5+ years of skilled experience in applicable roles

Post-secondary education in Computer Science or a similar discipline

What They Offer:

A competitive base salary and variable annual bonus.

A flexible hybrid working policy. Most people come into the office 2-3 days/week.

A healthy work-life balance.

25 days annual leave, plus 4 wellness days and public holidays

An annual personal development allowance

An office walking distance to Union Station

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