On behalf of our public-sector client, Affinity is seeking a Database Administrator and Back-up Consultant to Provide senior-level administration and operational support for APS’ enterprise database and backup and recovery platforms. Maintain the availability, performance, security and integrity of database environments and ensure successful backups, appropriate retention, and reliable recovery.

Work with application teams, infrastructure staff and vendors to resolve issues and strengthen operational sustainability

Responsibilities

- Provide senior-level administration and operational support for APS’ enterprise database and backup and recovery platforms. Maintain the availability, performance, security and integrity of database environments through monitoring, maintenance, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, performance tuning and incident response.
- Administer and monitor enterprise backup and recovery services to ensure successful backups, appropriate retention and reliable recovery of supported databases, servers, virtual environments, mailboxes and other in-scope assets. Investigate failures, perform and document restore testing, and maintain evidence required to demonstrate that defined recovery objectives and audit, compliance and cyber-insurance requirements are met.
- Work with application teams, infrastructure staff and vendors to resolve issues and support changes, projects and disaster recovery activities. Strengthen operational sustainability by documenting procedures, addressing root causes, and implementing appropriate standards, automation and tooling to reduce recurring effort and operational risk.

Qualifications Must Have





- Senior-level experience administering enterprise relational database platforms, including installation, configuration, maintenance, patching, upgrades, security, performance tuning and capacity planning.
- Strong experience administering enterprise backup and recovery platforms, including scheduling, retention, monitoring, restore operations, disaster recovery testing and recoverability validation.
- Ability to diagnose complex databases, backup and recovery issues, determine root causes and implement practical, risk-aware corrective actions.
- Sound operational judgment under pressure, with the ability to balance service availability, data integrity, security and recovery requirements during incidents.
- Experience with operating system administration, scripting, automation and monitoring tools relevant to database and backup operations.
- Disciplined change, incident and problem management practices, including planning, validation, documentation and follow-up verification.
- Explicit written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical findings, risks and recommendations to technical teams, vendors and leadership.
- Ability to work independently, manage competing operational priorities, collaborate across teams,



maintain effective documentation and participate in on-call support.

Nice to Have
- Experience supporting financial services, pension administration or other highly regulated environments.
- Experience producing backup verification, restore-testing and recovery evidence for audit, compliance or cyber-insurance purposes.
- Experience supporting databases or data protection modernization, platform upgrades and disaster recovery exercises.
- Experience applying scripting, automation and standardized tooling to reduce recurring operational effort.
- Relevant database, backup and recovery, cloud or IT service management certifications.

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Job Number: 14058

📌 Database Administrator and Back-up Consultant (Edmonton)
🏢 Affinity
📍 Edmonton