Senior Sql Database Administrator

3 weeks ago


Montreal, Canada Experience AI Solutions Full time

Senior DBA


Start Date: as soon as possible

Type of employment: permanent

Location: Montreal, QC (hybrid position; 3 days onsite per week)

Number of Positions: 1

Language skills: Excellent English language skills

Perks: work for a multinational, award winning, socially responsible company with an operational presence in many countries, having been in business for over 75 years. It is a culturally diverse environments, employing thousands of people around the world, with beautiful downtown offices.


As a Senior Database Administrator, you have the responsibility of administrating, monitoring, and troubleshooting a 24x7 production environment’s database servers and associated infrastructure. This role is with other team members to ensure 100% uptime, plan future capacity requirements, maintain security, and apply updates.

You will also solve exciting technical challenges by analyzing, troubleshooting, and designing vital services, platforms, and infrastructure while always thinking about reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance.


Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Extensive and demonstrable experience as a DBA in large-scale MSSQL environments
  • Hands-on experience in managing high volume instances of highly available PostgreSQL configurations
  • Build and establish policies and procedures related to data security and integrity; monitor and limit database access as needed
  • Document the company's database environment
  • Knowledge of database storage engines and master-slave replication principles and practices
  • Good communication and co-ordination skills and ability to work effectively under pressure


Education: University degree, preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics or similar.

Required Skills:

· Strong and demonstrable experience as DBA in large-scale PostgreSQL or MSSQL environments

· Experience with site reliability

· Experience with VMware, as well as cloud (Azure, AWS)

· Documented hands-on expertise managing high-volume instances of PostgreSQL setups featuring high availability Linux shell scripting and general Linux system administration experience Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to get to the route of an issue quickly

· Develop and establish policies and procedures related to data security and integrity; monitor and limit database access as needed.

· Ensure all database servers are managed to Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).

· Document the company’s database environment.

· Experience in writing automation scripts, building application dashboards for proactive monitoring using Ruby, PowerShell, Python scripting or similar technologies, ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks

· Experience with database storage engines and master-slave replication principles and practices.

· Experience as Linux systems administrator (e.g., CentOS, RedHat) and command line system administration such as Bash, VIM, SSH.

· Experience with CI/CD in cloud environments and container technology, Docker and Kubernetes, Docker Swarm

· Good communication and coordination skills and able to work efficiently under pressure.

· Open to learning new skills and technologies


Preferred skills:

· Nice to have MongoDB and Oracle management

· Experience with CI/CD in cloud environments and container technology.

· Strong Good communication and coordination skills and able to work efficiently under pressure.


Administrateur de base de données principal


Date de début : dès que possible

Type d'emploi : permanent

Lieu : Montréal, QC (poste hybride ; 3 jours sur site par semaine)

Nombre de postes : 1

Compétences linguistiques : Excellentes compétences en anglais

Avantages : travaillez pour une entreprise multinationale, primée et socialement responsable, présente opérationnellement dans de nombreux pays depuis plus de 75 ans. C'est un environnement culturellement diversifié, employant des milliers de personnes dans le monde, avec de magnifiques bureaux en centre-ville.


En tant qu'Administrateur de base de données principal, vous avez la responsabilité d'administrer, surveiller et résoudre les problèmes des serveurs de base de données d'un environnement de production 24x7 et de l'infrastructure associée. Vous travaillerez avec d'autres membres de l'équipe pour assurer un temps de disponibilité de 100 %, planifier les besoins futurs en capacité, maintenir la sécurité et appliquer les mises à jour. Vous résoudrez également des défis techniques passionnants en analysant, dépannant et concevant des services, des plates-formes et une infrastructure vitaux, tout en pensant toujours à la fiabilité, à la scalabilité, à la résilience, à la sécurité et aux performances.

Principales tâches et responsabilités :

  • Expérience étendue et démontrable en tant qu'administrateur de base de données dans des environnements MSSQL à grande échelle
  • Expérience pratique de la gestion d'instances à volume élevé de configurations PostgreSQL hautement disponibles
  • Élaborer et établir des politiques et des procédures liées à la sécurité et à l'intégrité des données ; surveiller et limiter l'accès à la base de données au besoin
  • Documenter l'environnement de base de données de l'entreprise
  • Connaissance des moteurs de stockage de bases de données et des principes et pratiques de réplication maître-esclave
  • Bonnes compétences en communication et en coordination, et capacité à travailler efficacement sous pression

Éducation : Diplôme universitaire, de préférence en informatique, en génie informatique, en mathématiques ou domaine similaire.

Compétences requises :

  • Forte et démontrable expérience en tant qu'administrateur de base de données dans des environnements PostgreSQL ou MSSQL à grande échelle
  • Expérience en fiabilité du site
  • Expérience avec VMware, ainsi qu'avec le cloud (Azure, AWS)
  • Expertise pratique documentée dans la gestion d'instances à volume élevé de configurations PostgreSQL avec haute disponibilité
  • Compétences avancées en résolution de problèmes, avec la capacité d'identifier rapidement l'origine d'un problème
  • Élaborer et établir des politiques et des procédures liées à la sécurité et à l'intégrité des données ; surveiller et limiter l'accès à la base de données au besoin
  • Veiller à ce que tous les serveurs de base de données soient gérés selon les objectifs de point de récupération (RPO) et les objectifs de temps de récupération (RTO)
  • Documenter l'environnement de base de données de l'entreprise
  • Expérience dans l'écriture de scripts d'automatisation, la création de tableaux de bord d'application pour une surveillance proactive en utilisant Ruby, PowerShell, Python ou des technologies similaires, capacité à déboguer et optimiser le code et automatiser les tâches courantes
  • Expérience avec les moteurs de stockage de bases de données et les principes et pratiques de réplication maître-esclave
  • Expérience en tant qu'administrateur de systèmes Linux (par exemple, CentOS, RedHat) et en administration système en ligne de commande tels que Bash, VIM, SSH.
  • Expérience avec CI/CD dans des environnements cloud et la technologie de conteneur, Docker et Kubernetes, Docker Swarm
  • Bonnes compétences en communication et en coordination, et capacité à travailler efficacement sous pression.

Ouvert à l'apprentissage de nouvelles compétences et technologies

Compétences préférées :

  • Souhaitable d'avoir des compétences en gestion de MongoDB et Oracle
  • Expérience avec CI/CD dans des environnements cloud et la technologie de conteneur.
  • Fortes compétences en communication et en coordination, et capacité à travailler efficacement sous pression.



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