Database Administrator

We are looking for a Database Administrator! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract to hire
Title: Database Administrator
Term: 5-months – 37.5 hours/week
Location: Toronto – Hybrid
Job ID number: C1164

Brief description of duties:

• Provide on-site database and system support
• Monitor, collect statistical information, and provide reporting on capacity and system performance
• Based on statistics, make recommendations to maintain and improve capacity and system performance
• Monitor the system, and act upon system and application automated alerts
• Perform diagnostics, testing, and troubleshooting of software, o/s, and database issues (ex. correcting installation, configuration, or data problems)
• Plan and perform software installation, configuration, upgrade and patching
• Plan and perform database configuration, maintenance, upgrade and patching
• Perform and manage system and database backups
• Perform manual switch to redundant system / database components, in case of system failure

MUST haves:

• 5-7+ years of experience as a Database Administrator in providing technical support, covering application and/or database administration and operations to include monitoring maintenance capacity, performance monitoring/planning and incident/problem troubleshooting and resolution
• Hands-on experience with Quality Assurance (QA) medium/large projects
• Establish test cases and criteria to complex business functions and requirements
• Hands-on experience with SQL development for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB OR Oracle. MongoDB is preferred
• Experience with JSON, Python, Linux/AIX Shell Scripts
• Proven ability to write excellent technical documentation

Nice To Have:

• Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, ServiceNow
• Agile methodology
• Insurance or Banking experience

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills to be able to work well with technical peers and business stakeholders at different levels within the organization.
• Strong decision making, forward thinking and creative problem-solving skills to anticipate and respond quickly to technological/market influences.
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction.