Database Administrator

4 days ago


Toronto, Canada NielsenIQ Full time

Job Description

As a Database Administrator you work on the maintenance and operations of our Databases including Snowflake, Redshift and RDS. As well you are responsible for the workflow management of our data activities including management of our Control M workload automation tool

You are also responsible for Incident, Change, Problem and Release Management activities for all Production and non-Production environments.

What you’ll do
- Collaborate with other functional teams (development, platform, support)
- Participate in the incident response and root cause determination of database outages, including off-hours support and emergencies
- Participate in project planning and implementation activities with Cross Functional teams
- Help to develop standards for the optimal operation, cost efficiency and maintenance of databases
- Proactively monitor and report on the state of the health of the databases
- Work to provide thought leadership, solutions and support others with your expertise.
- Document and maintain runbooks for database activities
- Maintain and administer the Control M workload automation tool
- Deploy all production changes as required by development teams from QA to Prod within the Control M tool
- Maintain all scheduling and flow for processes within Control M

We are looking for people with
- 5 years of experience as a Database administrator preferably Snowflake
- 2 years of experience with a workload automation tool, preferably Control M
- Incident Management - ServiceNow, Freshdesk, Remedy
- Change Management - FreshService, JIRA ServiceDesk
- Experience with Elastic, Kibana, Grafana and Icinga
- Experience with Python, SnowSQL and Grub
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Bitbucket or Bamboo (preferred)
- Experience with Linux administration
- Knowledge of IAAC with tools like Ansible, Terraform or similar
- Knowledge of docker / Kubenetes
- Experience in cloud based solutions (AWS, Azure)
- Knowledge of BI tools such as SuperSet, Sisense or Qlik (QlikView, QlikSense)

About You:

- You are a positive, self-starter and curious
- You have high attention to detail.
- You are keen on delivering sustainable solutions using iterative approach.
- You have a strong understanding of the Snowflake architecture, roles and user security.
- You have a strong understanding of Snowflake capabilities like Snowpipe, STREAMS, DATA SHARING, snowflake decoupled compute and storage.

Additional Information

**About NielsenIQ**

NielsenIQ is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.



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