Full-Time Continuing (35 hours per week) MSU Band G (Steps 1-8): $41.674 - $60.619 per hour. $75,846 - $110,326 per annum (Based on 35 hours per week). The competition will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.

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MacEwan University is where caring faculty help people connect their passions to their future paths. Located in the heart of Edmonton's diverse and dynamic downtown community, and on the traditional lands of Treaty 6 First Nations and homelands of the Métis people, MacEwan is known for exceptional undergraduate learning. With its dedication to teaching excellence, informed by scholarly research, innovation, and creative activity, MacEwan provides an exceptional collaborative and supportive learning environment with a commitment to human rights, environmental sustainability, and opportunities for community engagement. We are committed to creating an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community for all peoples, cultures, and identities.

Our comprehensive undergraduate university offers 55 programs to more than 21,000 full- and part-time students in business, communications, community and human services, design, fine and performing arts, health, humanities, natural science, nursing, public safety, and social science. Through a wide array of experiential learning opportunities, and strategic relationships in the community, we partner with others to produce graduates of stature. Along with a robust grounding in their chosen disciplines, MacEwan students are given durable life skills that prepare them to take on the world.

MacEwan University is seeking a Senior Database Administrator for a full time continuing opportunity with Information Technology Services.

Reporting to the Team Lead, IT Data and Analytics,



the Senior Database Administrator is the technical subject matter expert responsible for the administration, availability, security, performance, and lifecycle management of the University’s Oracle, SQL Server, and other database environments. The role also supports PeopleSoft administration and, as operational priorities require, other enterprise database and data platforms.

Key responsibilities include:

- Administering, maintaining, monitoring, and optimizing Oracle databases hosted in AWS RDS and Oracle applications that support critical University services;
- Managing database availability, security, backup and recovery, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, performance tuning, and disaster-recovery readiness;
- Troubleshooting complex Oracle database issues, including SQL performance, indexing, data integrity, integrations, and production incidents;
- Planning and executing PeopleSoft code migrations, refreshes, upgrades, and lifecycle-management activities across on-premises and cloud environments;
- Supporting PeopleSoft administration, including environment management, application and PeopleTools upgrades, patching, migrations, and technical troubleshooting;
- Collaborating with application teams, infrastructure teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure reliable and secure operation of Oracle and PeopleSoft environments;




- Maintaining technical documentation, operational procedures, standards, and automation for database and application administration;
- Providing support for Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, other AWS database services, and related enterprise data platforms; and
- Providing support for Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, data warehousing, ETL pipelines, and legacy data-integration tools, as operational priorities require.

Skills

You will have:

- Comprehensive knowledge of Oracle database administration principles, architectures, and best practices;
- Strong knowledge of Oracle database security, access controls, auditing, backup and recovery, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and disaster recovery;
- Excellent SQL and PL/SQL skills, including query optimization, indexing, execution-plan analysis, and performance tuning;
- Demonstrated ability to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex database availability, performance, integration, and data-integrity issues in production environments;
- Knowledge of AWS RDS for Oracle administration, including monitoring, configuration, snapshots, restoration, maintenance, and upgrades;
- Knowledge of database migration, refresh, conversion, and lifecycle-management practices;
- Knowledge of PeopleSoft administration, including PeopleTools, environment management, patching, upgrades, migrations, and technical troubleshooting;
- Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, and other cloud-hosted database services;
- Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, data warehousing, ETL pipelines, and related data-integration technologies;
- Ability to develop and

📌 Senior Database Administrator (Edmonton)
🏢 MacEwan International
📍 Edmonton