About Job

CTC Undisclosed Job Location Canada Experience 5 - 8 yrs

Description

Assist in daily administration activities including setup, configuration and monitoring of databases to ensure backups, availability and performance are all maintained to the highest standards.

Tuning, trouble shooting and on-call production support for database environments deployed in multi-AZ AWS environments both on the EC2 and RDS/Aurora platforms.

Monitor and work the JIRA ticket queue for request to make schema changes, security changes, execute scripts against the databases and refresh non-production databases.

Advise application development and support teams on process bottlenecks and provide database tuning to ensure optimal performance.

Assist the support staff to troubleshoot SQL and any other database errors.

Provide 24*7 on-call support (includes holidays) for the Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and Aurora (MySQL/PostgreSQL) production and non-production databases.

Report weekly to management about abnormalities and critical issues; provide root cause analysis and recommendations; work with infrastructure team, application team and/or other teams for problem resolutions, following the escalation path if needed.

Desired Skills:

Deploying or migrating databases into AWS (ec2 or RDS) or any hands-on experience working with AWS or other public cloud providers a distinct advantage.

Highly proficient in one or more of these RDBMS technologies:

MS SQL Server

AWS RDS/Aurora (mySQL)

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Working knowledge of one or more database high availablilty scenarios such as:

AWS Multi-AZ database deployments

MS SQL Server Always on Availability Groups

Oracle Dataguard

Knowledge of one or more database data replication tools such as:

MS SQL Server transactional replication

Oracle Golden Gate

AWS DMS/DMT

Unix/Linux general administration skills and/or bash/python/powershell scripting a distinct advantage

Knowledge of ANSI SQL Language (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, JOIN, WHERE, etc).

Strong analytical, communication both written and verbal and quality control skills.

Ability to manage multiple tasks with different deadlines.

Detail oriented, self-motivated and uses sound judgment.

A team player who works well with others.

Desire to learn and improve your skills.

Minimum Qualifications:

Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite products.

General desktop with Windows and Linux server experience.

Be available after hours and weekends as necessary for customer maintenance's.

Education and Experience:

Bachelors Degree in related area preferred

5 years experience in database administration

3 years experience in Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL or other database scripting language